donde

From the Vulgar Latin de unde (“from where, whence”), from Latin dē + unde (“whence”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdon.de/
• Rhymes: -onde
• Hyphenation: dón‧de

donde

1. (archaic) whence; from where or which

   Synonym: onde

   • Decameron I:3

     né veggendo donde così prestamente come gli bisognavano avergli potesse

     not seeing where he [Saladin] might fetch so much money so quickly as he needed it

From Vulgar Latin de unde, from de + unde.

donde (Latin spelling)

1. of whom, of which, whose

donde (Latin spelling)

1. of whom, of which, whose

dōnde

1. present participle of dōn

Contraction of de onde (“from where”).

• Hyphenation: don‧de

donde

1. whereof
2. whence; from where

• donle

donde (Cyrillic spelling донде)

1. to that place

   Trčimo odande donde. ― We run from that place to that place.

From de (“from”) + Old Spanish onde (“whence, from where”), from Latin unde.

Replaced Old Spanish o (“where”), from Latin ubi, although the latter survives, in a marginal way, in the form do, which is also prefixed with de.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdonde/ [ˈd̪õn̪.d̪e]

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• Rhymes: -onde
• Syllabification: don‧de
• Homophone: dónde

donde

1. (in indirect questions) where, in what place

   Deja los libros donde quieras.

   Leave the books where you want.

donde

1. (Chile, colloquial) because
2. (Latin America, colloquial) if

donde

1. by, near to

   Estamos donde la plaza mayor.

   We're around by the main square.

2. round (at the house of)

   Cenamos donde Daniel.

   We're having dinner (round) at Daniel's place.

donde

1. (relative) where, in what place

   El lugar donde estamos es secreto.

   The place where we are is secret.

• “donde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “donde”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 516