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Look up post mortem. What is its word-by-word translation? after death

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Look up post mortem. What is its word-by-word translation? after death

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The task presents a Go to etymonline.com inquiry about the Latin term post mortem and asks for its word-by-word translation. The user-provided answer is a single entry: "after death".

First, consider what post mortem means in Latin: 'post' means after or after the time of, and 'mortem' is the accusative singular form of 'mors' meaning death. Put together, the literal, word-for-word translation is 'after death'.

Because there are no alternative answer choices provided in the data (the answer_options field is empty), there is nothing to compare against to evaluate plausibility or to identify common distractors. In general, other plausible interpretations could be mistaken if someone misreads 'mortem' as something like 'mortality' or misinterprets 'post' as 'past' in a non-grammatical way, but the standard etymological gloss remains 'after death'.

Thus, the given answer "after death" aligns with the canonical Latin components and their direct meanings, and there are no additional options to critique or reject here.

CLA 030 001 WQ 2025 Homework 17: Latin Phrases, p. 123

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