empero
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish empero. According to Coromines and Pascual, a compound of Old Spanish en (“therefore”), variant of ende + pero (“however”), correspondingly from Latin inde and per hoc. Attested since the mid-13th century in texts such as Libro de Alexandre and Calila e Dimna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]empero
Verb
[edit]empero
Further reading
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “pero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 496
- “empero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014