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Latin
Etymology
From eā + tenus.
Pronunciation
Adverb
eātenus (not comparable)
- so far
C. Suetonius Tranquillus,
Tiberius :
- ac primo eatenus interueniebat, ne quid perperam fieret.
- at first he went (only) so far as to hinder ill management
- hitherto, so long
Celsus,
De Medicina 2,10:
- (depletura) proximum enim locum primo exhaurit; ex ulterioribus autem eatenus sanguis sequitur, quatenus emittitur
- (blood-letting) extracts blood first from the nearest place and thereupon blood from more distant parts follows so long as the letting out of blood is continued
References
- “eatenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eatenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eatenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.