dehinc

Latin

Etymology

Univerbation of dē (“down from”) +‎ hinc, with apocope of +‎ -ce and vowel contraction.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dei̯nk/, [d̪ɛi̯ŋk]
• (Poetic) (Classical) IPA^(key): /deˈhink/, [d̪eˈ(ɦ)ɪŋk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈink/, [d̪eˈiŋk]
• Note: can be disyllabic (iambic) with regularly exceptional final stress in poetic usage.

Adverb

dehinc (not comparable)

1. from here, from here on in, hence, henceforth, from this time on, in the future, at a later stage (in the story)
   • c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 111:

     nēmō est quem jam dehinc metuam

     There's nobody I'm going to be afraid of after this.

   1. (with causative force) so now

   Synonym: posthāc

2. immediately afterward, afterwards, after that, thereafter, thereupon, then, next
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.131:

     Eurum ad sē Zephyrumque vocat; dehinc tālia fātur:

     He summons to himself Eurus and Zephyrus; thereupon he speaks such [words]: [...].
     (Pronounce “dehinc” as monosyllabic in this context.)

3. (in enumerations) then, next (in order)
4. (topography) from this place on, from here on
   • 86 BCE – c. 35 BCE, Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum 19.6:

     post eōs Aethiopās esse, dehinc loca exūsta sōlis ārdōribus

     Further to the south are Ethiopians, and from here on lands scorched by the sun's heat.

References

• “dehinc” on page 554 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “dehinc”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dehinc”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dehinc in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.