hactenus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰo

Proto-Italic *ho

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Italic *ke

Proto-Italic *hoke

Latin hec

Latin hic

Latin hāc

Latin -tenus

Latin hāctenus

From hāc (“on this side”) + -tenus (“as far as”).

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

hāctenus (not comparable)

1. thus far, so far, as far as this.

   Synonym: adhuc

2. to this point (but no further).
3. (figuratively) thus far, hitherto, to this moment, until now.
4. (figuratively) to this extent, so far
5. so much for.

References

• “hactenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hactenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hactenus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque or sed haec (quidem) hactenus