entonce

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

  • entonçe, entonçes, entonces
  • estonçe, estonce, estonçes, estonces

Etymology

Compounded from Latin in + *tunce, archaic form of the more standard tunc. About as equally attested in the Old Spanish period as its variant estonce, with or without the "adverbial -s" ending.

Adverb

entonce

  1. then
    • c. 1250, anonymous, Bocados de oro, (ed. by Mechthild Crombach, 1971, Bonn: Romanisches Seminar der Universität Bonn):
      E el regno de los griegos era partido entonce por muchos reyes. E algunos d'ellos davan tributo al rey persiana.
      And the kingdom of the Greeks was then split among many kings. And some of them gave tribute to the Persian king.

Descendants

  • Spanish: entonce, entonces

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish entonçe, entonce, compounded from Latin in + *tunce, archaic form of tunc. Still in common use in the 16th century, it became very rare by the 17th century.

Pronunciation

Adverb

entonce

  1. obsolete form of entonces

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