Dictionary

postscriptum en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌpəʊstˈskɹɪptəm/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin postscriptum, from From post (“after, behind”) + scrīptum (“text, something written”).

Meanings

1. (rare) A thing that has been written afterwards; something appended in writing.
   • Sometimes she adds short postscriptums, but, though full of her doings and sayings, this correspondence contains but little that is really from Rosa Bonheur’s own pen. 1902, The Critic, volume 41, page 369:
   • […] read the mother’s report to the students and pointed out to them how she evidently could not yet believe in a definite change, this being clear from her postscriptums “I know of” and “though with all the Christmas excitement. . . .” 1956, The American Journal of Individual Psychology, volumes 12–13, page 169:
   • Postscriptum for taxpayers: After having started with the high-temperature thriller we turned to applications of conventional superconductors. 2004, L. G. Aslamazov, A. A. Varlamov, The Wonders Of Physics:
   • Meanwhile, I remain—Ever yours, / Jehu Face. / Postscriptums I hate; but I think you had better / Keep snug to yourself the contents of this letter. 1820, Humphry Martial [pseudonym], “Sir Jehu Face to Sir Cordovan Bristlemood”, in The Radical Letter-Bag, London: […] W. Wright, […], page 8:
   • 1827, M. Corbett, The odd volume, containing a letter purporting to be from King James VI of Scotland to Sandie Fotheringhame, Laird o'Powrie, signed: James, R. Postscriptum. — Scotland for ever! The Dane’s beneath the table, and Rab’s on the tap o’t, blawing like the deevil.
   • This confidence so daintily tossed to the baron, in the fashion of a postscriptum, was evidently the compensation for five thousand francs. 1900, Honoré de Balzac, Anatole Cerfberr, La Comédie Humaine: Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English:

Forms

Translations (35)

de Postskriptum (something written afterward) · el υστερόγραφο or Υ.Γ. (something written afterward) · fr post-scriptum (something written afterward) · fi jälkikirjoitus (something written afterward) · nl NB (something written afterward) · tl habol (something written afterward) · ca postdata (something written afterward) · es posdata (something written afterward) · nl P.S. (something written afterward) · ru постскри́птум (something written afterward) · ms poskrip (something written afterward) · pt postscriptum (something written afterward) · it poscritto (something written afterward) · es postdata (something written afterward) · hy Հ.Գ. (something written afterward) · cs postskriptum (something written afterward) · ms pascatulisan (something written afterward) · nl postscriptum (something written afterward) · is eftirskrift f or e.s. (something written afterward) · hy հետգրություն (something written afterward) · la post scriptum (something written afterward) · es post scriptum (something written afterward) · hu utóirat (something written afterward) · ka პოსტსკრიპტუმი (something written afterward) · be постскрыптум (something written afterward) · ja 追伸 (something written afterward) · pl postscriptum (something written afterward) · nl nota bene (something written afterward) · pt pós-escrito (something written afterward) · ms catatan tambahan (something written afterward) · is p.s. (something written afterward) · is eftirmáli (something written afterward) · es post scríptum (something written afterward) · is n.b. (something written afterward) · uk постскри́птум (something written afterward)