entonces
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Alternative forms ===
entonce, intonce (eye dialect)
=== Etymology ===
From entonce + -s, first attested in the 14th century.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: en‧ton‧ces
=== Adverb ===
entonces
(dialectal, chiefly Rio Grande do Sul, Minho, Trás-os-Montes) then (in one of the situations)
Synonym: então
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“entonces”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“entonces”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Alternative forms ===
tonce, tonces (colloquial)
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Old Spanish entonce, entonces, from Latin in + *tunce, the latter an archaic form of tunc (“then”). Compare Portuguese então and Romanian atunci.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /enˈtonθes/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪õn̟.θes] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
IPA(key): /enˈtonses/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪õn.ses] (Latin America, Philippines)
Rhymes: -onθes (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
Rhymes: -onses (Latin America, Philippines)
IPA(key): (colloquial, casual speech) [tõ̞ns], [ˈtõ̞nse̞s], (s-debuccalization) [ˈtõ̞nse̞(h)], (southern Spain) [ˈtõ̞nθe̞(h)]
Rhymes:
IPA(key): [tõ̞es], [ˈtõ̞e̞x] (colloquial, Colombian, Venezuelan speech)
Rhymes:
Syllabification: en‧ton‧ces
=== Adverb ===
entonces
(demonstrative) then, next, thereupon, at that time, at that point
(conjunctive) then, therefore, so, thus
==== Derived terms ====
==== See also ====
=== Further reading ===
“entonces”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025