See also: onde che

Italian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From onde (whence) +‎ che (relative pronoun). Inspired by Latin undique.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /on.deˈke/*
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: on‧de‧ché

Adverb edit

ondeché (obsolete)

  1. whencever, whencesoever; from whatever place
    • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, G. Pickering (1825), page 27.
      [...] che si guardi, dove ch'egli vada, ondeché egli torni, chech'egli oda o vegga, niuna novella, altro che lieta, ci rechi di fuori.
      [...] have a care that, whithersoever they go or whencesoever they return and whatsoever they hear or see, they bring us from without no news other than joyous.

Conjunction edit

ondeché

  1. (sentence-initial) thence; thereafter

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • ondeché in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana