for those On Post etymonline/index.php?term=post&allowed_in_frame=0 post (adv.) Look up post at Dictionary 1540s, with post horses, hence, rapidly; especially in the phrase to ride post go rapidly, from post (n.3). post (n.1) Look up post at Dictionary a timber set upright, from Old English post pillar, doorpost, and Old French post post, upright beam, both from Latin postis door, post, doorpost, perhaps from por- forth (see pro-) + stare to stand (see stet). Similar compound in Sanskrit prstham back, roof, peak, Avestan parshti back, Greek pastas porch in front of a house, colonnade, Middle High German virst ridepole, Lithuanian pirstas, Old Church Slavonic pristu finger (PIE *por-st-i-). post (n.2) Look up post at Dictionary place when on duty, 1590s, from Middle French poste place where one is stationed, also, station for post horses (16c.), from Italian posto post, station, from Vulgar Latin *postum, from Latin positum, neuter past participle of ponere to place, to put (see position (n.)). Earliest sense in English was military; meaning job, position is attested 1690s. post (n.3) Look up post at Dictionary mail system, c.1500, riders and horses posted at intervals, from post (n.2) on notion of riders and horses posted at intervals along a route to speed mail in relays, probably formed on model of Middle French poste in this sense (late 15c.). Meaning system for carrying mail is from 1660s. post (v.4) Look up post at Dictionary to put up bail money, 1781, from one of the nouns post, but which one is uncertain. Related: Posted; posting. post (v.1) Look up post at Dictionary to affix (a paper, etc.) to a post (in a public place), hence, to make known, 1630s, from post (n.1). Related: Posted; posting. post (v.2) Look up post at Dictionary in bookkeeping, to transfer from a day book to a formal account, 1620s, from post (n.2) via a figurative sense of carrying by post horses. Related: Posted; posting. post (v.3) Look up post at Dictionary to send through the postal system, 1837, from post (n.3). Earlier, to travel with relays of horses (1530s). Related: Posted; posting. post (v.5) Look up post at Dictionary to station at a post, from post (n.2). Related: Posted; posting.
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