postulatum

postulatum (plural postulata)

1. A postulate.
   • 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 61:

     The unity or identity of the people of the United States has been taken as a postulatum, without one serious attempt to prove it.

• Noah Webster (1828), “postulatum”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.

Neuter nominalization of postulātus.

postulātum n (genitive postulātī); second declension

1. a demand, request

   Synonyms: petītiō, supplicātiō, supplicium, precātiō, rogātiō, prex

2. a claim, complain

   Synonyms: querella, petītiō

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• English: postulate
• French: postulat

postulātum

1. inflection of postulātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• postulatum in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “postulatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postulatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers