different between site vs post

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /sa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: cite, sight (The term "site" can be a misspelling of the latter homophone.)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).

Noun

site (plural sites)

1. (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
   • a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5

     Ine þe kyng had a sonne, his name Adellus./Dede he toke & he died, als it salle do vs./Sorow & site he made, þer was non oþer rede,/For his sonne & heyre, þat so sone was dede.

Etymology 2

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of situs.

Noun

site (plural sites)

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
   • 1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,

     A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.

   • 1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,

     However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....

   • 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co, p. 74,

     At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
   • 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke, p. 192,

     The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.

   • 1716, John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions, R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock, p. 208

     Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.

   • 2006, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations, Zondervan, ?ISBN, p. 7,

     Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.

3. The posture or position of a thing.
   • 1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,

     And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.

   • 1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words], W. Taylor, p. 11,

     There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
   • 1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, p. 433,

     The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...

   • 1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings, Springer, ?ISBN, p. 208,

     If the site is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.

   • 2006, Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution, Springer, ?ISBN, p. 298,

     The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.

5. A website.
   • 1986, Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Signet Classic (1986), ?ISBN, p. 398,

     Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site.

   • 1992, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1992), ?ISBN, p. xxvi,

     Voice of the Shuttle: https://web.archive.org/web/19980223210306/http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.

   • 2006, Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook, O'Reilly, ?ISBN, p. 248,

     When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.

6. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
8. A part of the body which has been operated on.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)

1. (architecture) To situate or place a building.
   • 1835, Mining Journal,

     A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.

   • 1872, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24,

     For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.

   • 2006, Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, p. 22,

     It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.

   • 2006, The Scotsman (15 Dec 06),

     Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.

Further reading

• site on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• site in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• site in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• site at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• EITs, ETSI, Esti, ITEs, SETI, TISE, ties

Chuukese

Etymology

si- +? -te

Pronoun

site

1. we (inclusive) will never
2. so we (inclusive) do not

Related terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English site.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i?t/
• Hyphenation: site

Noun

site m (plural sites, diminutive siteje n)

1. web site

   Synonyms: website, webstek

2. archaeological site

   Synonym: opgraving

3. (uncommon) construction site

   Synonym: bouwplaats

Derived terms

• advertentiesite
• datingsite
• gamesite
• goksite
• internetsite
• nieuwssite
• sekssite
• pornosite
• vacaturesite
• veilingsite

French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Noun

site m (plural sites)

1. site
2. (Internet) website

Derived terms

• site web
• site Internet
• site perso

Further reading

• “site” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

site

1. feminine plural of sito

Anagrams

• seti, stie, tesi

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i?.te?/

Adjective

site

1. bad

Synonyms

• hawi-yte

Derived terms

• bälungsite

References

• R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 429
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[4], Payap University, page 50

Latin

Participle

site

1. vocative masculine singular of situs

Neapolitan

Verb

site

1. second-person plural present indicative of èssere

Old French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Noun

site m (oblique plural sites, nominative singular sites, nominative plural site)

1. site; location

Descendants

• English: site
  • French: site

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (site)
• sit on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• saite (Brazilian)

Etymology

From English site.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?saj.t??i/

Noun

site m (plural sites)

1. site; web site (a collection of pages on the World Wide Web)

   Synonyms: sítio, website, web site

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:site.

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

site

1. inflection of sit:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Noun

site

1. locative singular of sito

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [si?te]
• Hyphenation: si?te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French cité.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

1. housing estate
2. city

Declension

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from English site, with pronunciation kept from earlier borrowing from French.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

1. (Internet) Web site

Declension

Derived terms

• Web sitesi

English

Alternative forms

• poast (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??st/
• (General American) enPR: p?st, IPA^(key): /po?st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

From Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

2. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
3. A pole in a battery.
4. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
5. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
6. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
7. (sports) A goalpost.
8. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
9. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
   • 1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs

     when God ?ends coyne,
     I will di?charge your poa?t

10. the vertical part of a crochet stitch

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

   Post no bills.

2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

   to post someone for cowardice

   • 1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13

     On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow / Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.

3. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull, Chapter X

     You have not posted your books these ten years.

4. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
   • 1872, "Interviewing a Prince", Saturday Review, London, volume 33, number 853, March 2, page 273

     thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

5. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).

   Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

Derived terms

• poster

Descendants

• Chinese: po

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. [16th-17th c.]
2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

   a stage or railway post

3. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
4. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?)

     In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, scene iii, line 152

     I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, / Receiving them from such a worthless post.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin 2012, p. 199:

     information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

5. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]

   sent via post; parcel post

   • 1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11

     I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

6. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]
7. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
8. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

   Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

9. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
   • a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, scene iii, line 273

     And then in post he came from Mantua.

10. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
    • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England, Volume 1, chapter IV, page 136

      there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

Derived terms

Descendants

All are borrowed

Translations

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

     Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

2. To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, scene vi, line 1

     Post speedily to my lord your husband.

   • c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13

     thousand at his bidding speed, / And post o'er land and ocean without rest; / They also serve who only stand and wait.

3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]

   Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.

4. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
5. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]

   I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

Derived terms

• poster

Translations

Adverb

post (not comparable)

1. With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene 5,^[2]

     His highness comes post from Marseilles,

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 353:

     In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 93:

     He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.

2. Sent via the postal service.

Descendants

• German: posten

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably from French poste.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. An assigned station; a guard post.
2. An appointed position in an organization, job.

Translations

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
2. To assign to a station; to set; to place.

   Post a sentinel in front of the door.

   • 1839, Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of Grasmere (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, […] or to get him posted.

Translations

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin post.

Preposition

post

1. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
   • 2008, Michael Tomasky, "Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show", The Guardian, online,

     One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

   • 2008, Matthew Stevens, "Lew pressured to reveal what he knows", The Australian, online,

     Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

Etymology 5

Clipping of post-production.

Noun

post (uncountable)

1. (film, informal) Post-production.

See also

• post-

Etymology 6

Clipping of post mortem

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. (medicine, informal) A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).
   • 2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent (page 306)

     I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.

Anagrams

• OTPs, POTS, PTOs, Spot, TPOs, opts, pots, spot, stop, tops

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin postus, from positus.

Verb

post

1. past participle of pondre

Cimbrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian posta.

Noun

post f (Luserna)

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

Derived terms

• postkart

References

• “post” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [po?st]

Noun

post m (plural postow)

1. post (method of sending mail)

Related terms

• lytherva
• postya
• sodhva an post

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st/, [?p??sd?]

Etymology 1

Via French poste m from Italian posto (“post, location”), from Latin positus (“position”), from the verb p?n? (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. post (position, job)

Inflection

Derived terms

• postere
• vagtpost

Etymology 2

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of p?n? (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, not used in plural form)

1. post, mail (letters or packages)
2. post, mail (a public institution distributing letters or packages)
3. postman (a person carrying letters or packages)

Inflection

Derived terms

• postbud
• postkontor

Etymology 3

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of p?n? (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. entry (in a budget)

Inflection

Derived terms

• postere

Etymology 4

Via Middle Low German post from Latin postis (“post, door-post”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. pump, tap, faucet (an outdoor water pump)
2. (rare, in compounds) post (supporting a door or a window)

Inflection

Derived terms

• dørpost
• vandpost
• vinduespost

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/
• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta.

Noun

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. Mail.
2. A mail office, a post office.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pos
• ? Indonesian: pos

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French poste, from Italian posto.

Noun

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. A location or station, where a soldier is supposed to be; position.
2. A post, a position, an office.

   Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor de posten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for the posts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)

Derived terms

• grenspost
• handelspost
• legerpost

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pos
• ? Indonesian: pos

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

post

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of posten
2. imperative of posten

Anagrams

• spot, stop

Esperanto

Etymology

Latin post

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /post/
• Hyphenation: post

Preposition

post

1. after
2. behind

French

Etymology

From English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (message on a blog, etc.)

Irish

Alternative forms

• posta (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??s?t??]

Noun

post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)

1. timber post, stake
2. (historical) post, letter carrier; (letter) post; postman
3. (military) post
4. (of employment) post, job

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "post" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “post” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “post” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m (invariable)

1. (Internet) post (message in a forum)

Anagrams

• spot, stop

Latin

Etymology

From earlier poste, from Proto-Italic *posti, from Proto-Indo-European *pósti, from *pós. Related to p?ne.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /post/, [p?s?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /post/, [p?st?]

Preposition

post (+ accusative)

1. (of space) behind
2. (of time) after, since, (transf.) besides, except

Adverb

post (not comparable)

1. (of space) behind, back, backwards
2. (of time) afterwards, after

Antonyms

• (before): ante

Derived terms

• post-
• poster/ posterus
• post?cus

Descendants

References

• post in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• post in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• post in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• post in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841

Latvian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [puôst]

Verb

post (tr., 1st conj., pres. pošu, pos, poš, past posu)

1. tidy, clean, adorn
2. dress up, smarten

Conjugation

Mòcheno

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian posta.

Noun

post f

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

Derived terms

• postkòrt

References

• “post” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?st/

Noun

post m

1. skin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian posta (in the given sense)

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural poster, definite plural postene)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

References

• “post” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian posta (in this sense)

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural postar, definite plural postane)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

References

• “post” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /post/

Noun

post m

1. post
2. pedestal

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: post, poste
  • English: post
    • ? German: Post
  • Scots: post, poist

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *post?.

Noun

post m inan

1. fast

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) po?ci? impf
• (adjective) postny

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m anim

1. post (message)

Declension

Further reading

• post in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• post in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?powst??/, /?post??/

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (individual message in an on-line discussion)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *post?.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. fast (period of abstaining from or eating very little food), fasting

Related terms

• posti

See also

• p?resimi
• Postul Mare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French poste.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. post, position, job, place, appointment, station

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s?t?/

Noun

post m (genitive singular puist, plural puist)

1. post, mail
2. Alternative form of posta
3. post, stake

Derived terms

• cairt-phuist
• post-bàire
• post-dealain

Verb

post (past phost, future postaidh, verbal noun postadh, past participle poste)

1. post, mail

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *post?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pô?st/

Noun

p?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fast, fasting

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??st/

Noun

p?st m inan

1. fast (act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English post. Doublet of puesto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?post/, [?post?]

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (computing) post

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

post c

1. postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
2. (uncountable) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
3. item of a list or on an agenda
4. post; an assigned station
5. position to which someone may be assigned or elected

   Posten som ordförande i idrottsföreningen är vakant.

   The position as chairman in the sports association is free.

Declension

Related terms

• posta
• postkontor
• postlåda
• Posten

Anagrams

• stop

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poust/, [po?st]

Noun

post

1. (computing, Internet) post

Derived terms

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [post]

Noun

post (definite accusative postu, plural postlar)

1. fur, hide, pelt

   Synonym: kürk

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /po?sd/, [p?o?st]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /p?sd/, [p??st]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m (uncountable)

1. post, mail

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin postis.

Noun

post m (plural pyst)

1. post, pillar

Derived terms

• mynegbost (“signpost”)

Alternative forms

• postyn

Mutation