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Latin
Etymology
Univerbation of dē (“down from”) + hinc, with apocope of + -ce and vowel contraction.
Pronunciation
Adverb
dehinc (not comparable)
- 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.
- (with causative force) so now
- Synonym: posthāc
- immediately afterward, afterwards, after that, thereafter, thereupon, then, next
- (in enumerations) then, next (in order)
- (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
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.