aftermath

English

The aftermath of a storm and flood.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Indo-European *-teros

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros

Proto-Germanic *after

Old English æfter

Middle English after

English after

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Old English æfter

Old English æfter-

Middle English after-

English after-

English math

English aftermath

From after- + math (“a mowing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːf.təˌmæθ/, /ˈɑːf.təˌmɑːθ/, /ˈæf.təˌmæθ/

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Noun

aftermath (plural aftermaths)

1. That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

   Synonym: lattermath (uncommon)

   Antonyms: foremath (uncommon), beforemath (uncommon)

   In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.

   • 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 September 2024:

     Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones).

   • 2026 March 4, Christian Wolmar, “Railtrack: what really happened”, in RAIL, number 1056, page 50:

     More than a quarter of a century after the fraught events that followed the privatisation of the railway, Corbett has provided a warts and all analysis of what led to the spate of rail disasters in the aftermath of the break-up of British Rail, and (ultimately) to the demise of the company.

2. (obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.

   Synonyms: lattermath (archaic), rowen (archaic)

   Antonyms: foremath (archaic), beforemath (archaic)

   • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:

     They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.

Translations

that which happens after, that which follows

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: أَعْقَاب f pl (ʔaʕqāb)
• Armenian: հետևանքներ (hetewankʻner), հետագա զարգացումներ (hetaga zargacʻumner)
• Azerbaijani: aqibət (az), sonuc
• Belarusian: насту́пства n (nastúpstva)
• Bulgarian: после́дствие (bg) n (poslédstvie), после́дица (bg) f (poslédica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後果 / 后果 (zh) (hòuguǒ), 結果 / 结果 (zh) (jiéguǒ), 餘波 / 余波 (yúbō)

• Czech: důsledek (cs) m, následek (cs) m
• Dutch: nasleep (nl) m
• Esperanto: postfojno
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: jälkivaikutus, jälkiseuraus, jälki (fi), jäljet (fi) pl
• French: séquelles (fr) f pl, contrecoup (fr) m, impact (fr) m, dégâts (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Nachwirkung (de) f, Folge (de) f, Nachwehen f pl (fig./exalted), Nachspiel (de) n (coll.), Folgezeit (de) f
• Greek: συνέπεια (el) f (synépeia), επακόλουθο (el) n (epakóloutho)
• Hungarian: következmény (hu), utóhatás (hu), utóélet (hu), utózönge (hu)
• Irish: iarmhairt f, toradh (ga) m
• Italian: conseguenze (it) f, strascico (it) m
• Japanese: 余波 (ja) (よ​は, yoha), 結果 (ja) (けっか, kekka)
• Korean: 여파(餘波) (yeopa), 결과(結果) (ko) (gyeolgwa)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: последица f (posledica)
• Polish: następstwo (pl) n, pokłosie (pl) n
• Portuguese: resultado (pt) m, rescaldo (pt)
• Romanian: consecințe f pl, sechele f pl, consecință (ro) f, repercursiune f, repercursiuni f pl, impact (ro), sechelă (ro) f, urmări (ro) f pl
• Russian: после́дствие (ru) n (poslédstvije)
• Slovak: dôsledok m, následok m
• Spanish: consecuencias (es) f pl, resultados (es) m pl
• Swedish: efterdyning (sv) c, efterspel (sv) n, efterräkning (sv) c
• Turkish: ardından, sonrasında
• Ukrainian: на́слідок m (náslidok)
• Walloon: shuvance (wa) f
• Welsh: adladd m

second mowing

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} втора коситба f (vtora kositba)
• Catalan: redall m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 再生草 (zh)

• Finnish: äpäre (fi)
• French: regain (fr) m
• German: Nachmahd f, Grummet (de) n, Zweiter Schnitt m
• Irish: athbharr m
• Polish: otawa (pl) f, potraw (pl) m
• Russian: второ́й поко́с m (vtorój pokós)
• Slovene: otava f
• Swedish: efterskörd c, efterslåtter (sv) c
• Welsh: adladd m

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