Reconstruction:Latin/tunce
Latin
editEtymology
editAdverb
edit*tunce (not comparable) (Old Latin)
Reconstruction notes
editIt 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
editDescendants
edit- Classical Latin: tunc
References
edit- atunci in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “entonces”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 643