senón
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese senon, from se (“if”) + non (“not”).
Preposition
senón
Conjunction
senón
- (after a negative clause) but rather
- 2019 September 3, Manuel Mera, “O mundo no límite ecolóxico”, in Galicia Hoxe[1]:
- Non só os coches particulares son responsábeis da contaminación, senón os centos de cruceiros xigantescos, os milleiros de avións, as ducias de milleiros de iates deportivos.
- Not only personal cars are responsible for pollution, but rather the hundreds of gigantic cruise ships, the thousands of airplanes, the dozens of thousands of sports yachts.
Further reading
- “senón”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012