Origin and history of Post-it

"post, letters," c. 1200, "a traveling bag, sack for keeping small articles of personal property," a sense now obsolete,...From thence, to "letters and parcels" generally (1680s) and "the system of transmission by public post" (1690s)....England, mail was letters going abroad, while home dispatches were post....OED defines it as a "letter-slit."...

"pointed stick or post; stick of wood sharpened at one end for driving into the ground, used as part of a fence, as a boundary-mark..., as a post to tether an animal to, or as a support for something (a vine, a tent, etc.)," Old English staca "pin, stake,...," Middle Low German stake "a stake, post, pillory, prison"), from PIE root *steg- (1) "pole, stick."...The specific meaning "post to which a condemned person is bound for death by burning" is from c. 1200, also "post to which...

give the appearance of several shafts around a central core; "by architects often distinguished from column, inasmuch as it...Phrase pillar to post "from one thing to another without apparent or definite purpose" is attested from c. 1600, late 15c.... as post to pillar, mid-15c. as pillar and post; but the exact meaning is obscure....Earliest references seem to allude to tennis, but post and pillar is recorded as the name of a game of some sort c. 1450....

palefroi (11c., palefreid) and directly from Medieval Latin palafredus, altered by dissimilation from Late Latin paraveredus "post...outlying districts" (6c.), originally "extra horse," from Greek para "beside, secondary" (see para-) + Medieval Latin veredus "post...The Latin word passed to Old High German as pfarifrid, and in modern German it has become the usual word for "horse" (Pferd...

Buck Rogers thought it up more than 25 years ago, and Bell System has been working on it here for 15 years....It is called Picturephone, and it is a small television camera and receiver that allows telephone users to gaze into the...Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 28, 1970]...

It preserves the classical Latin sense of the verb, whereas the meaning in compete is a post-classical evolution....

location; station of the Cross; stop, standstill," from Latin stationem (nominative statio) "a standing, standing firm; a post..., job, position; military post; a watch, guard, sentinel; anchorage, port" (related to stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta...The meaning "regular stopping place" is recorded by 1797, in reference to coach routes; it was applied to stopping places...The meaning "military post" in English is from c. 1600....

mid-14c., sobre, "moderate in desires or actions, habitually temperate, restrained," especially "abstaining from strong drink," also "calm, quiet, not overcome by emotion," from Old French sobre "decent; sober" (12c.), from Latin sobrius "not drunk, temperate, moderate, sensible,

late 14c., "roof of the mouth of a human or animal; the parts which separate the oral from the nasal cavity," from Old French palat and directly from Latin palatum "roof of the mouth," also "a vault," which is perhaps of Etruscan origin [Klein], but de Vaan suggests an IE root me

mid-13c., "income derived from an office, property, transaction, etc.;" c. 1300, "benefit, spiritual benefit, advantage;" from Old French prufit, porfit "profit, gain" (mid-12c.), from Latin profectus "growth, advance, increase, success, progress," noun use of past participle of