aevum

From Late Latin aevum, in the technical sense of Scholastic philosophy.

aevum (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) the mean between time and eternity; the state of being of the angels and saints in heaven

• (mean between time and eternity): aeviternity

• mauve

• aevom (archaic)
• euum (Medieval Latin)

From earlier aevom, from Old Latin aivom, from Proto-Italic *aiwom (“period, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”) (compare Avestan 𐬁𐬌𐬌𐬏‎ (āiiū), Ancient Greek αἰές (aiés), German nie, je).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.wum/, [ˈae̯.wũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.vum/, [ˈɛː.vum]

aevum n (genitive aevī); second declension

1. time, eternity
2. lifetime, age, generation
3. (Medieval Latin, philosophy) aevum, the mean between time and eternity, aeviternity

Second declension.

• Italian: evo
• Portuguese: evo
• Romanian: ev
• Spanish: evo

• aevum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aevum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aevum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aevum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette