según

From Latin secundus.

según

1. as soon as

según

1. in accordance with
2. according to

• segund (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish segund, segunt, inherited from Latin secundus with, per Coromines, a 'semi-learned' treatment of the stressed vowel^[1] (*segón would have been expected otherwise). Doublet of segundo. Related to seguir (“follow”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈɡun/ [seˈɣ̞ũn]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: se‧gún

según

1. according to

   Synonyms: acorde a, de acuerdo con

   Según dice Marta...

   According to what Marta says...

   Según la leyenda...

   According to the legend...

2. as, just as, the same way

   Todo queda según estaba.

   Everything stays just as it was.

3. depending on

• Unlike most Spanish prepositions, según governs the nominative and not the prepositional case with pronouns. Thus:

• según yo ― according to me
• según tú ― according to you

• Regional colloquial usage of the preposition según as an adverbial phrase when followed by que expresses evidential mood, indicating hearsay or non-commitment (meaning roughly "supposedly" or "it is said").

• Según que tiene SIDA. ― They say that he has AIDS.

• “según”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28