# posta
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔs.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpɔs.ta]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

posta f (plural postes)
* post (an assigned station)
* setting
    posta de sol ― sunset
* laying (the act of laying an egg)

##### Derived terms

* a posta

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

posta f sg
* feminine singular of post

### Further reading

* “posta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “posta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “posta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “posta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈposta]
* Rhymes: -osta
* Hyphenation: pos‧ta

### Adjective

posta (accusative singular postan, plural postaj, accusative plural postajn)
* later, posterior

## French
### Verb

posta
* third-person singular past historic of poster

### Anagrams

* optas, posât

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese posta (“slice, piece”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin positus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɔs.tɐ]

### Noun

posta f (plural postas)
* serving, slice, cut
    Synonym: toro
* fishery
* setting
* laying (the act of laying an egg)

#### Related terms

* poñer
* por

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “posta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “posta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “posta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “posta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “posta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Latin positus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpoʃtɒ]
* Hyphenation: pos‧ta
* Rhymes: -tɒ

### Noun

posta (plural posták)
* mail, post
* post office

#### Derived terms

* postai
* postás
* postáz
* főposta
* hangposta
* légiposta
* postabélyeg
* postafiók
* postahivatal
* postakocsi
* postaláda

### References

* ↑ posta in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* posta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Interlingua
### Noun

posta
* mail (that arrives in the mailbox)

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpˠɔsˠt̪ˠə]

### Noun

posta m (genitive singular posta, nominative plural postaí)
* Cois Fharraige form of post
* vocative plural of post

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
posta
postaí
vocative
a phosta
a phostaí
genitive
posta
postaí
dative
posta
postaí
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an posta
na postaí
genitive
an phosta
na bpostaí
dative
leis an bposta don phosta
leis na postaí :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin posita, feminine singular of positus, past participle of pōnō (“to put”). Originally, "post for horses or for mooring ships", then "stopping place for coaches on a journey, way station". Doublet of posta (feminine past participle of porre).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔ.sta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔsta
* Hyphenation: pò‧sta

#### Noun

posta f (plural poste)
* mail, post
* post office
    Synonym: ufficio postale
* (games) stakes

##### Derived terms

* a bella posta
* fare la posta
* fermoposta
* impostare
* posta in gioco
* postacelere
* postagiro
* postale
* postino

##### Descendants

* → Amharic: ፖስታ (posta)
** → Sidamo: posta
* → Cimbrian: post
* → Cornish: post
* → Czech: pošta
* → German: Post
* → Hungarian: posta
* → Luxembourgish: Post
* → Macedonian: пошта (pošta)
* → Middle French: poste
** French: poste
*** → Breton: post
*** → Georgian: ფოსტა (posṭa)
*** → Persian: پست (post)
** Norman: poste
** → Dutch: post
*** Afrikaans: pos
*** → Caribbean Javanese: pos
*** → Indonesian: pos
**** → Petjo: pos
*** → Papiamentu: pòst
** → English: post (see there for further descendants)
* → Mòcheno: post
* → Norwegian: post
* → Ottoman Turkish: پوسته (posta)
** Turkish: posta
** → Armenian: փոստա (pʻosta)
* → Polish: poczta
** → Belarusian: по́шта (póšta)
** → Kashubian: pòczta
** → Lithuanian: paštas
** → Russian: по́чта (póčta)
*** → Abkhaz: аԥошьҭа (apošta)
*** → Azerbaijani: poçt
*** → Armenian: փոշտ (pʻošt)
*** → Chamalal: поч (poč)
*** → Ingush: пошт (pošt)
*** → Georgian: ფოშტა (pošṭa), ფოჩტა (počṭa)
*** → Kazakh: пошта (poşta)
*** → Kildin Sami: пошта (pošta)
*** → Kyrgyz: почта (pocta)
*** → Romanian: poștă
*** → Turkmen: poçta
*** → Uyghur: پوچتا (pochta)
*** → Uzbek: pochta
*** → Yakut: буоста (buosta)
*** → Yakut: почта (pocta)
** → Ukrainian: по́шта (póšta)
* → Scottish Gaelic: posta, post
* → Slovak: pošta
* → Swedish: post
* → Vilamovian: pöst
* → West Frisian: post

### Etymology 2

From the feminine singular of posto, past participle of porre (“to put, to lay”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔ.sta/, (traditional) /ˈpo.sta/
* Rhymes: -ɔsta, (traditional) -osta
* Hyphenation: pò‧sta, (traditional) pó‧sta

#### Noun

posta f (plural poste)
* (archaic or colloquial, Tuscan) act of laying or putting, especially of eggs
* (archaic) act of giving a name, christening
* (archaic) footprint, track

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpo.sta/, /ˈpɔ.sta/
* Rhymes: -osta, -ɔsta
* Hyphenation: pó‧sta, pò‧sta

#### Participle

posta
* feminine singular of posto

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔ.sta/, /ˈpo.sta/
* Rhymes: -ɔsta, -osta
* Hyphenation: pò‧sta, pó‧sta

#### Verb

posta
* inflection of postare (“to post (an email, etc.; Internet)”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔ.sta/
* Rhymes: -ɔsta
* Hyphenation: pò‧sta

#### Verb

posta
* inflection of postare (“to post (sentries, etc.; military)”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ posta in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
* 1 2 3 4 5 posta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* 1 2 post in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* ↑ posto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Tapso, pasto, patos, spato

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔs.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔsta
* Syllabification: pos‧ta

### Noun

posta m animal
* genitive/accusative singular of post

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔs.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔs.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpɔʃ.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔs.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɔʃ.tɐ/

### Etymology 1
#### Participle

posta f sg
* feminine singular of posto

### Etymology 2

Nominalization of the feminine past participle.

#### Noun

posta f (plural postas)
* slice or chop of fish or other meat
* profitable job

##### Derived terms

* arrotar postas de pescada
* fazer em postas

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian posta.

#### Noun

posta f (plural postas)
* mail, postal service
* (dated) station of horses on the road that served as an inn or restaurant for travalers

### Etymology 4

Variation of bosta.

#### Noun

posta f (plural postas)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of bosta (“shit”)

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

posta
* inflection of postar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French poster.

### Verb

a posta (third-person singular present postează, past participle postat) 1st conjugation
* to post
* to settle

#### Conjugation
## Scottish Gaelic
### Alternative forms

* post

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

posta m (genitive singular posta, plural postachan or postaichean)
* postman, mailman, letter carrier

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “posta”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

## Sidamo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ፖስታ (posta), borrowed from Italian posta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfosta/
* Hyphenation: pos‧ta

### Noun

posta m
* post

### References

* Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “posta”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈposta/ [ˈpos.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -osta
* Syllabification: pos‧ta

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

posta f (plural postas)
* slug (a bullet)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

##### Derived terms

* a posta

#### Noun

posta m or f by sense (plural postas)
* courier

##### Derived terms

* corneta de posta

### Etymology 2

Derived from Italian apposta.

#### Adjective

posta m or f (masculine and feminine plural postas) (colloquial, Argentina)
* excellent
* exactly; optimal

#### Adverb

posta
* (colloquial, Argentina) exactly

#### Interjection

¡posta!
* (colloquial, Argentina) really! it's true!

### Further reading

* “posta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

posta class IX (plural posta class X)
* post office

### References

* ↑ Batibo, Herman M. (1996) “Loanword clusters nativization rules in Tswana and Swahili: a comparative study”, in South African Journal of African Language‎, volume 16, number 2, →DOI, page 39 of 33-41

## Swedish
### Etymology

post +‎ -a

### Verb

posta (present postar, preterite postade, supine postat, imperative posta)
* to put (something) in the mail (for delivery); to post, to mail, to send
    posta ett brevput a letter in the mail
    posta ett brev till någonsend a letter to someone [more commonly expressed with skicka (“send”) unless emphasizing putting the letter in the mail](literally, “post a letter to someone”)
* (Internet) to post (on an internet forum or social media)
    Synonym: (4chan slang) breva

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Related terms

* postare

#### See also

* inlägg
* kommentar
* mejla
* skicka

### References

* posta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* posta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* posta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* sopat, topas

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English poster.

### Noun

posta
* poster

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پوسته (posta, “mail”), Italian posta (“mail”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /posˈtɑ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

posta (definite accusative postayı, plural postalar)
* mail, post

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
posta
postalar
definite accusative
postayı
postaları
dative
postaya
postalara
locative
postada
postalarda
ablative
postadan
postalardan
genitive
postanın
postaların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
postam
postalarım
2nd singular
postan
postaların
3rd singular
postası
postaları
1st plural
postamız
postalarımız
2nd plural
postanız
postalarınız
3rd plural
postaları
postaları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
postamı
postalarımı
2nd singular
postanı
postalarını
3rd singular
postasını
postalarını
1st plural
postamızı
postalarımızı
2nd plural
postanızı
postalarınızı
3rd plural
postalarını
postalarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
postama
postalarıma
2nd singular
postana
postalarına
3rd singular
postasına
postalarına
1st plural
postamıza
postalarımıza
2nd plural
postanıza
postalarınıza
3rd plural
postalarına
postalarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
postamda
postalarımda
2nd singular
postanda
postalarında
3rd singular
postasında
postalarında
1st plural
postamızda
postalarımızda
2nd plural
postanızda
postalarınızda
3rd plural
postalarında
postalarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
postamdan
postalarımdan
2nd singular
postandan
postalarından
3rd singular
postasından
postalarından
1st plural
postamızdan
postalarımızdan
2nd plural
postanızdan
postalarınızdan
3rd plural
postalarından
postalarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
postamın
postalarımın
2nd singular
postanın
postalarının
3rd singular
postasının
postalarının
1st plural
postamızın
postalarımızın
2nd plural
postanızın
postalarınızın
3rd plural
postalarının
postalarının :

#### Derived terms

* e-posta
* postalamak

#### Related terms

* postane