Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postmedial

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables: post-medi-al
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Located behind (further towards the rear than) the middle.

adj

Located after the medial element.

Example Sentences

"Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow and white. Fore wing white, with the costal half to end of cell suffused with fuscous; an obscure fuscous triangular postmedial mark with its apex on inner margin, its inner limb with a black speck […]"
"[…] and PA *naːwal(a)w- and Y noːʔrep- 'following one behind the other' 055 (where PA adds postmedial *-(a)w, and Yurok the intransitive final -ep)."
"The medial suffix, ...kon..., carries the meaning "day": e.g., n'ka-nîšokonin I'll be away two days (and nights). […] The suffix also occurs with a postmedial extension, ...ak: e.g., nîšokonakisiw niski-pîsim it is the second day of April […] literally, the goose moon is in a state (...si-) of day two."

Etymology

From post- + medial.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: post

Derived Forms

postmedially

Antonyms

premedial antemedial

Rhymes With

antemedial caudomedial nonmedial distomedial rostromedial antimedial lateromedial craniomedial proximomedial premedial frontomedial labiomedial

Questions

What does postmedial mean?: Located behind (further towards the rear than) the middle.
Where does postmedial come from?: From post- + medial.

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