Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

posttumor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: post-tumor
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Following (removal of a) tumor.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English tumor English posttumor From post- + tumor.

Inflected Forms

post-tumor (alternative) post-tumour (alternative) posttumour (alternative)

Questions

What does posttumor mean?: Following (removal of a) tumor.
Where does posttumor come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English tumor English posttumor From post- + tumor.

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