뜻

1. 미래, 장래
2. 자손, 후예
3. 자식, 자손

1. future time
2. posterity
3. offspring

예문

• itaque neque cum maxime sunt florentes neque posteritati hi, quemadmodum sapientium cogitata hominum vitae, prodesse possunt. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER NONUS, chapter preface 1:48)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 머리말 1:48)

• Et haec laborum, quos exhausimus, Galliae spectatrices post funera multa, iacturasque recreatae diuturnas et graves, posteritati per aetatum examina commendabunt. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XXI, chapter 5 4:1)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 5장 4:1)

• Sustulit in hoste prostrato aureum colli monile Torquatus, fudit confidentissimum Gallum alitis propugnatione Valerius, postea cognomento Corvinus, hacque gloria posteritati sunt commendati; (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XXIIII, chapter 4 5:1)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 4장 5:1)

• Cuius velut discipulus duo volumina similium praeceptorum de vineis Iulius Graecinus composita facetius et eruditius posteritati tradenda curavit. (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 1, chapter 1 14:2)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 1권, 1장 14:2)

• Nos ad cetera praecepta illud adicimus, quod sapiens unus de septem in perpetuum posteritati pronuntiavit, adhibendum modum mensuramque rebus, idque ut non solum aliud acturis, sed et agrum paraturis dictum intellegatur, ne maiorem, quam ratio calculorum patitur, emere velint. (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 1, chapter 3 8:1)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 1권, 3장 8:1)

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