entonce

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Old Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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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

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  • Spanish: entonce, entonces

Spanish

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /enˈtonθe/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪õn̟.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /enˈtonse/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪õn.se]
  • Rhymes: -onθe
  • Rhymes: -onse
  • Syllabification: en‧ton‧ce

Adverb

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entonce

  1. Obsolete form of entonces.

Further reading

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