| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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8. Word Formation: Plurals, Possessives, Affixes, and Compounds
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| § 41. post- |
| The basic meaning of the prefix post- is “after.” It comes from Latin post, meaning “behind, after.” Post- is often used in opposition to the prefixes ante- and pre-: antedate/postdate; prewar/postwar. And post- occurs frequently in medical terminology. Postnasal and postnatal are two common examples, but there are many others, such as postcranial (“behind the cranium”) and postvertebral (“behind the vertebrae”). | 1 |
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