Translation
descendant; successor
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from post, meaning after, plus the person suffix -ul-. The root post is a borrowing of Latin post, the preposition behind the English words posterior and posthumous.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- post
- English cognates
- posterior, posthumous, postscript
Examples
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The king's descendants still live in that country.
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She is the old teacher's successor.
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We are writing this for our descendants.
Where the extra e comes from. Post plus -- plus -o ought to give postulo, and it would, except that postul- is already a root of its own: is to demand and o is a demand. So the word takes a linking -e- and comes out . PMEG says as much in its section on prefixed elements, listing o -> as an e-ending added purely to make the word comprehensible.
That is worth learning as a pattern rather than a one-off. A one-syllable particle put in front of a suffix can pick up an -e- when the bare join would collide with something else or become unpronounceable, and this is the commonest example of it in the language.
Two senses, one word. A is whoever comes after: your descendants down the generations, or the person who takes over your job. The opposite in both senses is o, which needs no linking vowel because antaŭulo collides with nothing.
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