eatenus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *íh₂

Latin eā

Latin tenus

Latin eātenus

From eā + tenus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eˈaː.tɛ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈaː.te.nus]

Adverb

eātenus (not comparable)

1. 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

2. hitherto, so long
   • c. 25 BCE – c. 50 CE, Aulus Cornelius 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.