English → Latin
“post” in Latin
stīpōto crowd or press together, compress; to cram, stuff, fill; to surround, encompasspalūsswamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, poolsūdōto sweat, perspirelocusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; groundsstatiōoutpost, picket; station; watchmūnusa service, office, employment; a burden, duty, obligation; a service, favorparsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, sidepostbehind (of space); after, since, (transf.) besides, except (of time)pālusstake, prop, stay, pale, postpariēsa wall; the wall of a house or room
The English word post itself goes back to Latin post.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
post s.
A piece of timber set up in the ground, stipes (a large, rough post): palus (a smaller post, used as a general term): sudes (a post more carefully wrought). He stands like a post, tanquam truncus stipesque stat: why do you stand there like a post? quid stas lapis?
Station, situation, locus (alicui assignatus); statio. To desert one’s post, stationem deserere; de statione discedere; locum or praesidium relinquere: to occupy a military post, praesidium occupare: to be at one’s post, stationem agere: to go to one’s post, stationem inire: to remain at one’s post, in statione manere (Plaut.); in loco manere; locum tenere (Caes.); or simply stare, restare (opposed to fugere).
Office, part, munus; partes, plur.; muneris officia, partes.
Public institution for conveyance of letters, etc., cursus publicus (general term); *cursus publicus perferendis epistolis. A post-boy (i. e., who carries the mail-bags), tabellarius publicus equo vectus; cursor publicus (Ruhnken): the post goes out, comes in, *cursus publicus, cursor, tabellarius publicus abit, venit: the post is gone, *cursor publicus jam profectus est: post time, profectio cursus publici: before post time, *priusquam cursor publicus abeat (abiret): after post time, *cum jam cursor publicus abiisset: to send by post, *transmittere aliquid per cursorem publicum; *vehiculo, cursori publico perferendum aliquid dare, committere; (litteras) cursori publico perferendas committere (Ruhnken): I will write to you by the next post, *per proximum, qui abit, cursum publicum litteras ad te permittam.
post v.
To fix on posts or walls, (libellum or tabulam) in publicum (Cic., Agr., 2, 5) or in publico (Cic., Att., 8, 9) proponere (general term); *palo, parieti, or ad parietem (libellum, tabulam) figere. To post up a bill, tabulam proscribere (with accusative and infinitive, Cic., Qu. Fr., 2, 6).
To station, in statione collocare; *alicui stationem, locum, assignare; (milites, praesidia) disponere.
To put (a letter) into the post-office, *aliquid cursori publico perferendum committere.
Intransitively, To travel with speed, *currere incitato equo; propere tendere, or contendere aliquo; properare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for post?
- The usual Latin words for “post” are stīpō, palūs, sūdō; also locus, statiō, mūnus. 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.