éternel
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin aeternālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /e.tɛʁ.nɛl/
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Adjective
[edit]éternel (feminine éternelle, masculine plural éternels, feminine plural éternelles)
- eternal (ever-lasting)
- 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante[1], page 1:
- C'est que, rompant avec l'imitation des siècles précédents, ils retournent à l'éternelle inspiratrice, à la nature . . .
- For, breaking with the imitation of previous centuries, they return to the eternal inspirer—to nature . . .
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “éternel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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