então
Meaning
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- (not-comparable) then (at that time)
- (not-comparable) then (soon afterwards; after that)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
en‧tão
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ẽˈtɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese enton, from Vulgar Latin *in tunc, from Latin in + tunc (“then”). Displaced collateral form entonce. Compare Spanish entonces.
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