posticum

Latin

Etymology

From postīcus (“back, rear”).

Noun

postīcum n (genitive postīcī); second declension

1. back door
2. outhouse

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	postīcum	postīca
genitive	postīcī	postīcōrum
dative	postīcō	postīcīs
accusative	postīcum	postīca
ablative	postīcō	postīcīs
vocative	postīcum	postīca

Derived terms

• posticulum

Descendants

• Galician: poxigo, pexigo, postigo, puxigo
• Portuguese: postigo
• Spanish: postigo (“shutter”)

Adjective

postīcum

1. inflection of postīcus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “posticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “posticum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “posticum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “posticum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin