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“behind” in Latin
pōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)postbehind (of space); after, since, (transf.) besides, except (of time)recalcitrōto kick back (of a horse); to be disobedient
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
behind adv.
prep., and adj., pone, post (opposed to ante): post tergum (behind the back: opposed to ante pectus): a tergo (from behind: opposed to adversus, or a latere. Vid: Sall., i. Ep. de Ord. Rep., 3. 2: neque adversus, neque a tergo, aut lateribus tutus est): to look behind, oculos retorquere: to kick out behind, recalcitrare (Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 20), or calces remittere: Behind the house, (in) aversa parte domus; in postico; (in) postica parte aedium; (in) postica domo (in the building or wing that is behind): the garden was behind the house, hortus erat posticis aedium partibus: to attack anybody from behind, aliquem aversum or a tergo aggredi, invadere: to receive a wound behind the ear, secundum aurem vulnus accipere (Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 7, 34, quite at the end.): to leave a person behind, post se relinquere: praecurrere: to leave anybody far behind, aliquem procul a se relinquere: behind anybody’s back (= in anybody’s absence, or without anybody’s knowledge), post tergum; clam aliquo or inscio aliquo: behind the mountain, ad terga mentis: a man died and left three daughters behind him, quidam decedens tres filias reliquit: to leave debts behind one, aes alienum relinquere.
Behind, out of sight, behind the curtain, obscurus, obscurior, reconditus, in recondito: there is some evil behind, aliquid mali subest: to be behind, i. e., left, remaining, reliquum esse, relinqui, restare, superesse. I desire to hear all that is behind, reliqua cupio scire omnia: what remains now behind? quid nunc porro? is there any more mischief yet behind? numquid est aliud mali reliquum? there is one work yet behind, unus superest labor.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for behind?
- The usual Latin words for “behind” are pōnō, post, recalcitrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.