뜻

1. 미래, 장래
2. 자손, 후예
3. 자식, 자손

1. future time
2. posterity
3. offspring

예문

• Maximinus regens quondam Romae vicariam praefecturam, apud Sopianas Valeriae oppidum obscurissime natus est, patre tabulario praesidialis officii, orto a posteritate Carporum, quos antiquis excitos sedibus, Diocletianus transtulit in Pannoniam. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XXVIII, chapter 1 5:2)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 1장 5:2)

• adeo maxima quaeque ambigua sunt, dum alii quoquo modo audita pro compertis habent, alii vera in contrarium vertunt, et gliscit utrumque posteritate. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER III, chapter 19 19:4)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 19장 19:4)

• Exequi sententias haud institui nisi insignis per honestum aut notabili dedecore, quod praecipuum munus annalium reor ne virtutes sileantur utque pravis dictis factisque ex posteritate et infamia metus sit. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER III, chapter 65 65:1)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 65장 65:1)

• unde pergamenarum nomen ad hanc usque diem tradente sibi invicem posteritate servatum est. (Jerome, Saint, Epistulae. Selections., Ad Chromatium, Iovinum, Eusebium 2:9)

  (히에로니무스, 편지들, 2:9)

• Scis igitur, quantas hominum mors falsa querellas Moverit, et frueris posteritate tua. (Martial, Epigrammata, book 7, XLVII 47:5)

  (마르티알리스, 에피그램집, 7권, 47:5)

유의어 사전

1. Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms, for majores; whereas prosapia, progenies, propago, proles, suboles, in a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri. 2. Prosapia is an antiquated solemn expression, and only to be used of ancient noble families, Cic. Univ. 11. Quintil. i. 6, 40; posteritas, the usual prosaic, progenies, a select, elevated expression, Cic. Rep. ii. 22; proles and suboles, poetical expressions, Cic. Or. iii. 38; proles denotes children, as fruits destined, as a younger race, to exist with their parents; suboles, as an after-growth, destined to supply the place of the generation that is dying off. 3. Gens (γενετή) is a political, genus (γένος), a natural race. Gens consists of families, whom the founder of states has united into a community or complex family; genus consists of species and individuals, that by their common properties belong to one and the same class of beings. (v. 307).

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein