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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection.[1] See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
eve (plural eves)
- The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
- (archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
- Mid-19th century, John Clare, Autumn:
- I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve
- 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, chapter XXVII, in A Shropshire Lad, lines 42–43:
- And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.
- 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
- Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
- (figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
Synonyms[edit]
- (evening): een, eventide, forenight; see also Thesaurus:evening
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
day or night before
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period of time when something is about to happen
References[edit]
- ^ “eve”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading[edit]
- “eve”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams[edit]
Aiwoo[edit]
Numeral[edit]
eve
References[edit]
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Ewe[edit]
| < 1 | 2 | 3 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : eve Ordinal : evelia | ||
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
eve
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Slang, from ekstaasi (folk-etymologically connected with the nickname Eve, with which it is unrelated)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
eve
- (slang) ecstasy (drug)
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of eve (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | eve | evet | ||
| genitive | even | evejen | ||
| partitive | eveä | evejä | ||
| illative | eveen | eveihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | eve | evet | ||
| accusative | nom. | eve | evet | |
| gen. | even | |||
| genitive | even | evejen eveinrare | ||
| partitive | eveä | evejä | ||
| inessive | evessä | eveissä | ||
| elative | evestä | eveistä | ||
| illative | eveen | eveihin | ||
| adessive | evellä | eveillä | ||
| ablative | eveltä | eveiltä | ||
| allative | evelle | eveille | ||
| essive | evenä | eveinä | ||
| translative | eveksi | eveiksi | ||
| instructive | — | evein | ||
| abessive | evettä | eveittä | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
eve (present tense ever, past tense eva or evet, past participle eva or evet)
- (reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet
References[edit]
- “eve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Norse efa, ifa.[1] Compare also with earlier ivast.
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
eve (present tense evar, past tense eva, past participle eva, passive infinitive evast, present participle evande, imperative eve/ev)
- (reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet
Noun[edit]
eve m (definite singular even, indefinite plural evar, definite plural evane)
Etymology 2[edit]
Related to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.[1]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
eve f (definite singular eva, indefinite plural ever, definite plural evene)
References[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
eve f (oblique plural eves, nominative singular eve, nominative plural eves)
Rapa Nui[edit]
Noun[edit]
eve
Turkish[edit]
Noun[edit]
eve
Zazaki[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ev (southern zazaki)
Article[edit]
eve
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