## Examples
- I have loved you since I first met you.
- Since you didn't call, we left without you.
- We have lived here since 2010.
- I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.

## Synonyms
- because
- sithence

## Antonyms
- until
- while

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: syns
- Root: sīþþan

## Etymology
From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).

## AI Etymology
Since is from Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”). Important forms in the word's history include Middle English syns, Old English sīþþan. In current use it includes senses such as From a point in the past until now and Because.

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