Postumius

From postumus. As a praenomen, it originally referred to children whose father died before they were born and were thus posthumous.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔsˈtʊ.mi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [posˈtuː.mi.us]

Postumius m sg (genitive Postumiī or Postumī); second declension

1. a Roman praenomen or nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Aulus Postumius Tubertus, a Roman military leader

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Postumia
• Postumiānus

Postumius (feminine Postumia, neuter Postumium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to the gens Postumia.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “Postumius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Postumius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.