senón

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese senon, from se (“if”) + non (“not”).

Preposition

senón

1. except

   Synonyms: agás, excepto, fóra, salvo

Conjunction

senón

1. (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