뜻

1. 미래, 장래
2. 자손, 후예
3. 자식, 자손

1. future time
2. posterity
3. offspring

예문

• proinde habeat rationem posteritatis et periculi sui. (CAESAR, COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO CIVILI, PRIMVS 13:5)

  (카이사르, 내란기, 1권 13:5)

• postrema multitudo spadonum a senibus in pueros desinens, obluridi distortaque lineamentorum compage deformes, ut quaqua incesserit quisquam, cernens mutilorum hominum agmina, detestetur memoriam Samiramidis reginae illius veteris, quae teneros mares castravit omnium prima, velut vim iniectans naturae, eandemque ab instituto cursu retorquens, quae inter ipsa oriundi crepundia, per primigenios seminis fontes, tacita quodam modo lege vias propagandae posteritatis ostendit. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XIV, chapter 6 17:3)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 6장 17:3)

• Ignorans fortasse, quosdam veterum principum in pace quidem lictoribus fuisse contentos, ubi vero proeliorum ardor nihil perpeti poterat segne, alium anhelante rabido flatu ventorum lenunculo se commisisse piscantis, alium ad Deciorum exempla vovisse pro re publica spiritum, alium hostilia castra per semet ipsum cum militibus infimis explorasse, diversos denique actibus inclaruisse magnificis, ut glorias suas posteritatis celebri memoriae commendarent. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XVI, chapter 10 3:1)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 10장 3:1)

• Quid enim tam pulchrum tamque posteritatis memoriae iusta ratione mandandum, quam ut miles strenue factis, ductor prudenter consultis exultet? (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XVII, chapter 13 26:2)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 13장 26:2)

• miretur super his Sergium, qui viciens et ter vulneratus est in variis pugnis (ut fertur), cuius posteritatis ultimus Catilina claras gloriarum adoreas, sempiternis maculis obumbravit. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XXV, chapter 3 12:4)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 3장 12:4)

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