postscriptum

A thing that has been written afterwards; something appended in writing.

Noun

  1. A thing that has been written afterwards; something appended in writing.
    • Meanwhile, I remain—Ever yours, / Jehu Face. / Postscriptums I hate; but I think you had better / Keep snug to yourself the contents of this letter. - 1820, Humphry Martial [pseudonym], “Sir Jehu Face to Sir Cordovan...
    • 1827, M. Corbett, The odd volume, containing a letter purporting to be from King James VI of Scotland to Sandie Fotheringhame, Laird o'Powrie, signed: James, R. Postscriptum. — Scotland for ever! The Dane’s beneath the...
    • This confidence so daintily tossed to the baron, in the fashion of a postscriptum, was evidently the compensation for five thousand francs. - 1900, Honoré de Balzac, Anatole Cerfberr, La Comédie Humaine: Now for the...

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin postscriptum, from From post (“after, behind”) + scrīptum (“text, something written”).

Forms

postscripta postscriptums post scriptum postscript PS P.S. p.s. ps.