eterne

• etern

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

eterne (comparative more eterne, superlative most eterne)

1. (obsolete) Eternal. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

     The substance is eterne, and bideth so; / Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade, / Doth it consume and into nothing goe [...].

   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio 1621, II.2:

     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.

   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     Eterne, intense, profuse,—still throwing up
     The golden spray of multitudinous worlds
     In measure to the proclive weight and rush
     Of His inner nature […]

• entree, entrée, rentee, retene, teener

• IPA^(key): /eˈterne/

eterne

1. forever, eternally

• eterna
• eterno
• eterneco

eterne

1. feminine plural of eterno

• tenere

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

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

eterne

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

• eternal

• eternal
• eternally
• eternyte

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

• “ētē̆rne (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

eterne m

1. definite plural of eter