dehinc

Forms

dehinc (not comparable)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from dē (“from”) and hinc (“from here”).^[2][3][4] Wiktionary explains the form as a joining of the two with loss of the particle ⟨-ce⟩.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Plautus has “there is nobody now whom I need fear from now on” in the Asinaria;^[2] Köbler also gives Plautus.^[4]

Semantic evolution

It is after this, from now on, in future, sometimes with a causal sense “so now”, and after that, then, next; in a poem or story it is “at a later stage”, as Horace's writer who then brings forth his marvels.^[2][1] In lists it is “next”, as Varro's “the fourth month was called June, then the fifth Quintilis”, in order of time, as in Silius, and in describing places “from there on”, as Sallust's “beyond them the Ethiopians, then scorched lands”.^[2][1]

In verse it is scanned as two syllables or as one;^[2][5] Lewis and Short note that the poets often treat it as one.^[2][5]

Timeline

• c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of “from now on”.^[2][4]
• 116–27 BC – Varro in the list of months.^[2][4]
• 86–34 BC – Sallust of lands beyond the Ethiopians.^[2][4]
• 65–8 BC – Horace of a story's later stage.^[2][4]

Meanings

Adverb

1. From now on, henceforth; so now.^[2][1]
2. After that, then, next; at a later stage.^[2][1]
3. Next (in a list or in order); from there on (in space).^[2][1]

Related words

• hinc
• deinde
• posthāc
• exinde

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press