verb
post-sum
Meaning
- to be after
post-sum (also separate, post sum), fui, esse, v. n.,
I. to be after or future; in tmesi:
qui ignominias sibi post putavit esse prae meo commodo, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 9. —Subst. A. postfŭtūri, ōrum, m., those yet to be, posterity:
quia solus omnium post memoriam humani generis subplicia in post futuros composuit, Sall. H. 1, 41, 6 Dietsch.—B. postfŭtūrum, i, n., that which is to be, the future:
duplicare obituri dolorem etiam post futuri aestimatione, Plin. 7, 55, 56, § 190: in post futurum, for the future, id. ib.: tum videbitur lex in postfuturum loqui, Gell. 17, 7, 8.