This week’s theme
Latin terms in English

This week’s words
modus operandi
per se
ex post
bona fide
per contra

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(eks POST)

MEANING:

adjective: Based on past events; actual, rather than predicted.
adverb: Retrospectively.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin ex (from) + post (after). Earliest documented use: 1937.

USAGE:

“But today, ex post, I know it was the arrow that was the most important, so in telling this I move it to the forefront.”
Witold Gombrowicz; Cosmos; Grove Press; 2005.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: