senón

From Old Galician-Portuguese senon, from se (“if”) + non (“not”). Cognate with Portuguese senão, Spanish sinó, French sinon.

• IPA^(key): [seˈnoŋ]

senón

1. except

   Synonyms: agás, excepto, fóra, salvo

senón

1. or else, otherwise
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce
     como habes doito, é catá,
     que si así no no fazèdes,
     me escatìmo, évelo hàs.
     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
     como estas cousas se fàn,
     è madia tendes, senon
     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet
     As you use to, but beware,
     if you don't do it like that
     I'll take offence, you'll see.
     You know well, it could not be otherwise,
     how these things are done,
     no doubt about it, or else
     I'll get angry

2. (after a negative clause) but rather
   • 2019 September 3, Manuel Mera, “O mundo no límite ecolóxico”, in Galicia Hoxe‎, archived from the original on 4 September 2019:

     Non só os coches particulares son responsábeis da contaminación, senón os centos de cruceiros xigantescos, os milleiros de avións, as ducias de milleiros de iates deportivos.

     Not only personal cars are responsible for pollution, but rather the hundreds of gigantic cruise ships, the thousands of airplanes, the dozens of thousands of sports yachts.

• “senon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “senon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “senón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “senón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “senón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “senón”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012