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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin ex tunc.
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
ex tunc
- (law) from the beginning, from the outset. Used to describe certain legal effects that can affect situations prior to this point in time and therefore can affect past actions.
Antonyms
Translations
law: from the beginning, from the outset
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin ex tunc.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ex tunc
- (law) ex tunc
- Antonym: ex nunc
Latin
Etymology
From ex (“from, out of”) + tunc (“then, in the past”); the use of ex with adverbs of time is a Late Latin development.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ex tunc (not comparable) (Late Latin)
- from then on, from that time
- from the beginning, from of old
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Isaiah.48.3:
- Priora ex tunc adnuntiavi, et ex ore meo exierunt, et audita feci ea.
- I have declared the former things from of old, and they have gone out from my mouth, and I have made them heard.
References
- ex in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “extunc”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 142