entonces

• entonce, intonce (eye dialect)

From entonce +‎ -s, first attested in the 14th century.^[1]

• Hyphenation: en‧ton‧ces

entonces

1. (dialectal, chiefly Rio Grande do Sul, Minho, Trás-os-Montes) then (in one of the situations)

   Synonym: então

• tonce, tonces (colloquial)

Inherited from Old Spanish entonce, entonces, from Latin in + *tunce, the latter an archaic form of tunc (“then”). Compare Portuguese então and Romanian atunci.

• IPA^(key): /enˈtonθes/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪õn̟.θes] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /enˈtonses/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪õn.ses] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -onθes (Spain)
  • Rhymes: -onses (Latin America, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): [tõ̞ns], [ˈtõ̞nse̞s], [ˈtonθe̞h] (colloquial, casual speech)
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• IPA^(key): [tõ̞es], [ˈtõ̞e̞x] (colloquial, Colombian, Venezuelan speech)
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• Syllabification: en‧ton‧ces

entonces

1. (demonstrative) then, next, thereupon, at that time, at that point

   Desde entonces, siempre he tenido cuidado.

   Since then I've always been careful.

   Entonces, el ladrón se fue.

   After that, the thief left.

2. (conjunctive) then, therefore, so, thus

   Estaba lloviendo antes, entonces de seguro viniste con paraguas, ¿no?

   It was raining before, so you certainly came in with an umbrella, didn't you?

• “entonces”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024