eterne

English

Alternative forms

• ætern
• æterne
• etern

Etymology

From Middle English eterne, from Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈtɜː(ɹ)n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

eterne (comparative more eterne, superlative most eterne)

1. (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 […]

Anagrams

• entree, entrée, rentee, retene, teener

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈterne/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -erne
• Hyphenation: e‧ter‧ne

Adverb

eterne

1. forever, eternally

Related terms

• eterna
• eterno
• eterneco

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈtɛr.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛrne
• Hyphenation: e‧tèr‧ne

Adjective

eterne

1. feminine plural of eterno

Anagrams

• tenere

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus, contraction of aeviternus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈtɛːrn(ə)/, /ɛˈtɛrn(ə)/

Adjective

eterne

1. Eternal, permanent; having existed (and existing) forever.
2. Endless, unending; lasting forever.
3. (rare) Long-lasting; non-ephemeral.

Synonyms

• eternal

Related terms

• eternal
• eternally
• eternyte

Descendants

• English: eterne, etern (obsolete)
• Scots: eterne, etern (obsolete)

References

• “ētē̆rne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 January 2019.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

eterne m

1. definite plural of eter

Anagrams

• ertene, eteren, -ertene, treene