evene

English

Etymology

From Latin ēveniō (“happen, fall out, come out”), from ē (“out of, from”) (short form of ex) + veniō (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈviːn/

Verb

evene (third-person singular simple present evenes, present participle evening, simple past and past participle evened)

1. (obsolete) To occur; to happen; to come to pass.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two).

     What would evene, if an eagle that is carried by the course of the wind, should let a stone fall from its talons.

Synonyms

• come to pass, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen

Related terms

• event

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “evene”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• eeven