Reconstruction:Latin/tunce
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]*tunce (not comparable) (Old Latin)
Reconstruction notes
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Classical Latin: tunc
References
[edit]- 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 [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 643