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“behind” in Latin

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.