desque

See also: dès que and des que

Asturian

Alternative forms

• esque, de que
• des que (obsolete)
• disqui, disque, desqui, isqui (Western, dialectal, pronunciation spelling)
• desaque (Eastern, dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Leonese desque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeske/ [ˈd̪es.ke]
• Rhymes: -eske
• Syllabification: des‧que

Conjunction

desque

1. right after, just after, as soon as
   • c. 1650, Antón de Marirreguera, Dido y Eneas:

     Desque illí dientro , ya tenín aviso

     When [they were] in there, they were already warned.

   • 1925, Mario Gómez, Un rapaz empecatau:

     -¿ Quiés saber lu qui pasou disqui salierun di casa ?

     Do you want to know what happened to them as soon as they left their house?

2. ever since
   • c. 1770, Antonio Baldivares Argüelles, El misteriu de la Trinidá Vida, pasión y muerte de Xesucristo:

     Y plasma so entendimientu
     Desque lu oí aponderar
     A Llazarín el barberu
     En unes coples que canta,
     A la xente del so pueblu

     And his intelligence impressed [me]
     Ever since I heard him praise
     Llazarín the barber
     With some lines he sings
     To the people

   • c. 1850, Teodoro Cuesta, A la memoria del malogrado General Concha:

     España de valientes foi viveru des que Dios fexo'l mundo

     Ever since God created the world, Spain has been the nursery of brave people.

   • 1912, José García Peláez, El diañu los microbios:

     Desque entamó la peste entamárenmi ganes de dar yo mió limosna

     Ever since the plague began I've wanting to give out my own alms.

3. since

Further reading

• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “desque”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “desque”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Galician

Conjunction

desque

1. alternative spelling of des que

Old Leonese

Alternative forms

• desaqui (early)
• desqua (Fuero de Avilés)

Conjunction

desque

1. from then, since
   • 1245, Ordinances made by the city and council of Oviedo:

     [...] maas de cinco cirges ye desque estos sirges foren quemados metant otros cinco...

     [...] more than five candles it's when these candles would be burnt another five should be put...

Descendants

• Asturian: desque, esque
• Leonese: desque
• Mirandese: çque

Old Spanish

Etymology

From des +‎ que, the first element from Late Latin dē ex and the latter from Latin quid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeske/

Conjunction

desque

1. since
   • c. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria, primera parte (ed. by Prieto-Borja, 2002, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):

     El potriello desque nace fasta tres días non puede con la boca alcançar a tierra.

     A foal, from the time it is born till three days later, cannot reach the ground with its mouth.

Descendants

• Spanish: desque

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish desque, from des +‎ que, from Late Latin dē ex and Latin quid respectively. Became rare and non-standard by the 18th century, displaced by después de que, desde que, ya que.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeske/ [ˈd̪es.ke]
• Rhymes: -eske
• Syllabification: des‧que

Conjunction

desque

1. (obsolete) since, after
   • 1620, Gregorio de los Ríos, Agricultura de jardines, 2a parte p. 306 (ed. by Joaquín Fernández Pérez and Ignacio González Tascón, 1991, Madrid: CSIC - Ayuntamiento de Madrid):

     […] , y si el árbol es delicado, y se temen que por ser chico al invierno se le ha de elar, puédele sembrar en tiesto, y desque esté grande trasponerle en tierra.

     […] , and if the tree is delicate, and it is feared that due to being small the winter may freeze it, you may plant it in a pot, and after it grows big transplant it into the ground.

   • 1788, Tomás de Iriarte, La señorita malcriada p. 356 (ed. by Russell P. Sebold, 1986, Madrid: Castalia; the passage is written in informal spoken Spanish):

     D. Gonzalo. ¿Quién da crédito a canallas?
     Bartolo. Si mormuran sin conciencia...
     (Tirando de la manga al Tío Pedro.)
     Y hay hombres que no reparan
     que al fin los amos son amos,
     y las verdaes... se tragan.
     Tío Pedro. Creo que la doña Ambrosia
     no está muy acomodaa
     desque la faltó el marido.

     Don Gonzalo. Who believes scoundrels?
     Bartolo. If they whisper without qualms... (Pulling Uncle Pedro's sleeve.) And there are men who don't realize that, in the end, masters are masters, and truths... should be kept quiet.
     Uncle Pedro. I think that Mrs. Ambrosia is not in a very good state since she lost her husband.

2. (obsolete) as, seeing that

Further reading

• “desque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026