Middle English Dictionary Entry
posthumus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | posthumus adj. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Born after the death of the father, posthumous.
Associated quotations
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)206 : This same Lodeweyk had to wyves; on was dowtir to the duke of Borgayn..anothir was dowtir to the Kyng of Hungarie, of whom cam Jon, cleped Posthumus.