eterne
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English eterne, from Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪˈtɜː(ɹ)n/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]eterne (comparative more eterne, superlative most eterne)
- (obsolete) Eternal. [14th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The substance is eterne, and bideth so; / Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade, / Doth it consume and into nothing goe [...].
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall / On Mars his Armours, forg'd for proofe Eterne, / With lesse remorse then Pyrrhus bleeding sword / Now falles on Priam.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Third Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- Eterne, intense, profuse,—still throwing up
The golden spray of multitudinous worlds
In measure to the proclive weight and rush
Of His inner nature […]
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[edit]Italian
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus, contraction of aeviternus.
Pronunciation
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[edit]eterne
- Eternal, permanent; having existed (and existing) forever.
- Endless, unending; lasting forever.
- (rare) Long-lasting; non-ephemeral.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “ētē̆rne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.
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