postquam

Latin

Etymology

A univerbation of post (“after”) and quam (“than”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpost.kʷam/, [ˈpɔs̠(t̪)kʷä̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpost.kwam/, [ˈpɔst̪kwäm]

Conjunction

postquam

1. after
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello gallico 1.27.3:

     eō postquam Caesar pervēnit, obsidēs, arma, servōs, qui ad eōs perfūgissent, poposcit.

     After Caesar had come thither, he demanded hostages, their arms, and the slaves who had deserted to them.

2. since
   • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Spectactula 1.18.6:

     postquam inter nōs est plūs feritātis habet.

     since she has been among us, she has more of wildness

References

• “postquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• postquam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• postquam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• postquam in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung