postclassical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
After the classical era (but sometimes before the medieval).
Example Sentences
- "From the postclassical grammar, we can deduce that the book was written in the Middle Ages"
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- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin classicuslbor. French classiquebor. English classic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English classical English postclassical From post- + classical.