| a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,” occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital). |
| post- pref.
[Latin, from post, behind, after; see apo- in Indo-European roots.] |
post- pref.
After; later: postpartum.
Behind; posterior to: postaxial.
| post-
A prefix that means "after," as in postoperative, after an operation, or "behind," as in postnasal, behind the nose or nasal passages. |