Noun: post
Sample Sentences
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ram a post into the ground
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The posts mark the boundaries of the property.
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when God ſends coyne,
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I will diſcharge your poaſt [1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs:]
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But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post. [2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:]
Nouns inflected like post
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
4. Proto-Indo-European *pér
5. Proto-Indo-European *-o
6. Proto-Indo-European *pró
7. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥-sth₂-i-s
10. Proto-Italic *porstis
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
12. Proto-Indo-European *-o
13. Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
14. Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó
15. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
16. Proto-Indo-European *-is
17. Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó-sth₂-i-s
18. Proto-Italic *postis
19. Latin postisbor.
20. Old English post
21. ▲
22. Latin postisder.
23. Old French postbor.
24. Middle English post
25. English post
26. Inherited from Middle English post, from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Old French post (“post, upright beam”), both from Latin postis (“door, post, doorpost”). See: Middle English Nouns '
post', Middle English Nouns '
post', Old English Nouns '
post', Latin Nouns '
postis'.
Verbs referencing "post"
French Nouns
post, Irish Nouns
post, Swedish Nouns
post, Spanish Nouns
puesta.