Reconstruction:Latin/addessum

Etymology
Perhaps a contraction of a phrase like *[] "at this/that very time".

Adverb

 * 1) now/then(?)

Reconstruction notes
If the foregoing etymology is correct, one might have expected an original */ad(e)ˈdepsu/. The actual */a(d)ˈdɛssu/ implied by the Romance forms can then be explained as the result of an early remodelling according to. The similarity of their reflexes is clear in any case.

The single /d/ of the perhaps resulted from a remodelling of  (also attested) to.

Descendants

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