future (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. fŭtūrus2. postĕrus (that is to follow)3. rĕlĭquus (that which yet remains) • future (adj.): 1. fŭtūrus: signs of f. things, signa f. rerum, Cic.: to foresee what is f., futura prospicere, Cic.: the f. tense, f. tempus, Prob. Gram. 2. postĕrus (that is to follow): esp. in phr., in posterum, for the f. (time), Caes. B. C. 1, 3: Cic.: a present and a f. age, praesens et p. aetas, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42: more usu. in sense of following, subsequent: q. v. 3. rĕlĭquus (that which yet remains): esp. in phr., for the f. (time), in r. tempus, Caes. B. G. 3, 16: more freq. without the subs., in reliquum, Cic. Fam. 10, 7, fin.: Sall.: Liv.: also in other connexions, in the hope of f. calm (opp. to present storms), spe r. tranquillitatis, Cic. Sext. 34, 73.