eternal
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈtɝnəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈtɜːnəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
- Hyphenation: eter‧nal
Adjective[edit]
eternal (not comparable)
- Lasting forever; unending.
- 1690, Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
- But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
- 1700 [c. 1387–1400], Dryden, John, transl., “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer:
- Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
- 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- In a bid to understand the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.
- Synonyms: agelong, endless, everlasting, permanent, sempiternal, unending; see also Thesaurus:eternal
- Antonyms: ephemeral, momentary, transient; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
- (philosophy) existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
- Synonyms: timeless, atemporal; see also Thesaurus:timeless
- (dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
- some eternal villain
- Synonym: awful
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Translations[edit]
lasting forever
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Noun[edit]
eternal (plural eternals)
- One who lives forever; an immortal.
- 2012, D. E. Phoenix, Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto:
- Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators
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Catalan[edit]
Adjective[edit]
eternal (masculine and feminine plural eternals)
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Middle English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French eternal, eternel, from Latin aeternālis; equivalent to eterne + -al.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
eternal
- Eternal, permanent; having existed (and existing) forever.
- Endless, unending; lasting forever.
- (rare) Long-lasting; non-ephemeral.
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References[edit]
- “ēternā̆l, -ē̆l (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.
Spanish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
eternal (plural eternales)
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