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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈdɛi̯ŋk]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈiŋk]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''dehinc''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed from [[m|la|dē|t=from]] and [[m|la|hinc|t=from here]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary explains the form as a joining of the two with loss of the particle ⟨-ce⟩.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus has “there is nobody now whom I need fear from now on” in the ''Asinaria'';^(OLD 2012) Köbler also gives Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==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.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) 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”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ In verse it is scanned as two syllables or as one;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short note that the poets often treat it as one.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of “from now on”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro in the list of months.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of lands beyond the Ethiopians.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a story's later stage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adverb===
+ # From now on, [[m|en|henceforth]]; so now.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # After that, then, next; at a later stage.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Next (in a list or in order); from there on (in space).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[hinc]]
+ * [[deinde]]
+ * [[posthāc]]
+ * [[exinde]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}