senón

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese senon, from se (“if”) + non (“not”). Cognate with Portuguese senão, Spanish sinó, French sinon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seˈnoŋ]

Preposition

senón

1. except

   Synonyms: agás, excepto, fóra, salvo

Conjunction

senón

1. or else, otherwise
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce
     como habes doito, é catá,
     que si así no no fazèdes,
     me escatìmo, évelo hàs.
     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
     como estas cousas se fàn,
     è madia tendes, senon
     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet
     As you use to, but beware,
     if you don't do it like that
     I'll take offence, you'll see.
     You know well, it could not be otherwise,
     how these things are done,
     no doubt about it, or else
     I'll get angry

2. (after a negative clause) but rather
   • 2019 September 3, Manuel Mera, “O mundo no límite ecolóxico”, in Galicia Hoxe‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 September 2019:

     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.

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “senon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “senon”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “senón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “senón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “senón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Further reading

• “senón”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024