posteriora

== Latin == === Adjective === posteriōra nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of posterior === Noun === posteriōra n pl (genitive posteriōrum); third declension posterior regions, behind, arse Martin Luther in a letter to Philip Melanchthon, 5 December 1521, from the Weimarer Ausgabe BR 2, page 333 Dominus percussit me in posteriora gravi dolore; tam durus sunt excrementa, ut multa vi ad sudorem extrudere cogar, et quo diutius differo, magis durescunt. The Lord has struck me in the posterior with great suffering; so hard are my excrements, that I am forced to push them out with great strain to the point of sweat, and when I put it off, they become harder. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), plural only. === References === "posteriora", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)