On tisdag 14 augusti 2001 06.59, Zero Powers <zero_powers@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"Posthumous" is not derived from anything meaning post-human. I've seen a
>couple different etymological explainations for the "-humous" part, having
>to do with either the Latin "humus" (earth) or humâre (to bury). I believe
>I also recall something a while back which referred to the Latin word for
>"humor." But nothing like "human."
Mea culpa. non iterabo.
/felix
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