eatenus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eˈaː.te.nus/, [eˈäːt̪ɛnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈa.te.nus/, [eˈäːt̪enus]
Adverb
[edit]eātenus (not comparable)
- so far
- C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Tiberius :
- ac primo eatenus interueniebat, ne quid perperam fieret.
- at first he went (only) so far as to hinder ill management
- ac primo eatenus interueniebat, ne quid perperam fieret.
- hitherto, so long
- Celsus, De Medicina 2,10:
- (depletura) proximum enim locum primo exhaurit; ex ulterioribus autem eatenus sanguis sequitur, quatenus emittitur
- (blood-letting) extracts blood first from the nearest place and thereupon blood from more distant parts follows so long as the letting out of blood is continued
- (depletura) proximum enim locum primo exhaurit; ex ulterioribus autem eatenus sanguis sequitur, quatenus emittitur
References
[edit]- “eatenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eatenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eatenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.