English
eviternal
Eviternal comes from Latin eviternus ‘eviternity’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeviternus‘eviternity’
- Englishearliest quotation 1640eviternal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeviternus‘eviternity’
- Englishearliest quotation 1640eviternal
Earliest quotation: 1640, Joseph Hall: “What is the heaven itself, but (as Gerson compares…”
Every English word from Latin eviternus
Today it means
adj eternal; everlasting
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin eviternus / eviternal