posthumous

Meaning

Adjective

• After the death of someone.
• Taking place after one's own death.
• In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
• Born after the death of one's father.

Related

Similar words

• post mortem

Opposite words

• antemortem
• anthumous
• predeath
• prehumous
• premortem

Origin

• From Latin posthumus, a variant spelling of postumus, superlative form of posterus, the ⟨h⟩ added by association with humus referring to burial.