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=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:
> Could someone tell me what the etymology is of the French word "encore"
> (Italian "ancora", Rumantsch "aunc", Romanian "înca")? I can't think of any
> reasonable Latin word; I was thinking of "coram", but somehow that doesn't
> sound right to me.
The bizarre but apparently uncontested etymology is HINC AD HORAM 'from this
[hour] to [that] hour'.
Hey, it's no worse than "ampersand" < "and per se &", as in "x y z and
per se [by itself] &".
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