thence

English

Etymology

From Middle English þennes, from þenne ‎ -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðɛns/

• Audio (US):

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  Rhymes: -ɛns

Adverb

thence (not comparable)

1. (formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

   I came thence.

   Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).

   • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judges j:[3], folio xiij, recto, column 2:

     And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:

     Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or bleſſed was't we did?
     Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ſayſt) were we heau'd thence, / But bleſſedly holpe hither.

   • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 605

     From this we can find the characteristic roots $b_{1}$ and $b_{2}$ and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.

2. (literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.

   I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.

3. (archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter

Antonyms

• thither

Derived terms

Terms derived from thence

• thenceforth
• thenceforward

Related terms

• hence
• whence

Translations

from there

• Armenian: անտի (hy) (anti) (archaic)
• Azerbaijani: oradan, ordan
• Bulgarian: следователно (bg) (sledovatelno)
• Czech: odtud (cs)
• Danish: deraf følger, deden, derfra
• Dutch: daarvandaan (nl), vandaar (nl)
• Finnish: tuolta (fi), sieltä (fi)
• French: dès lors (fr) (from that time on), de là (fr) (from that place)
• Galician: ende (archaic), en (gl) (archaic)
• German: daher (de), von dannen (de) (archaic), dorther (de)
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌸𐍂𐍉 (þaþrō)
• Greek: εκείθεν (el) (ekeíthen)

  Ancient: ἐκεῖθεν (ekeîthen)

• Hindi: वहाँ से (vahā̃ se)
• Hungarian: onnan (hu)
• Icelandic: þaðan (is)
• Ido: depose (io)
• Korean: 거기에서 (geogieseo)
• Latin: illim, illinc, inde (la), abinde
• Navajo: kodóó
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: derfra, derifra

  Nynorsk: derifrå, derfrå

• Old English: þanan
• Polish: stamtąd (pl)
• Portuguese: desde aí, daí (pt)
• Romanian: de acolo
• Russian: отту́да (ru) (ottúda)
• Spanish: desde ahí
• Swedish: därifrån (sv), obsolete: dädan (sv) - dialectally shortened to dän (sv) (from that place); sedan (sv) (from that time on)
• Ukrainian: зві́дти (zvídty)

Anagrams

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