Reconstruction:Latin/tunce

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From tum +‎ -ce.

Adverb

*tunce (not comparable) (Old Latin)

1. then

Reconstruction notes

It is conceivable that the Romance reflexes do not continue the archaic *tunce directly and come instead from Classical tunc, later suffixed a second time with -ce. The same ambiguity occurs with *illince.

Derived terms

• *ad tunce
  • Aromanian: atumtsea, atuntsea, atuntsi
  • Romanian: atunci, atuncea
• *in tunce
  • Asturian: entós
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: entonce
  • Old Spanish: entonce
    • Spanish: entonces

Descendants

• Classical Latin: tunc

References

• atunci in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “entonces”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 643