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Latin
Etymology
For older aeviternus, from aevum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time, lifetime”). Morphologically (but not semantically) equivalent to aetās + -rnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
aeternus (feminine aeterna, neuter aeternum, adverb aeternō); first/second-declension adjective
- abiding, lasting, permanent, perpetual
- Synonyms: perennis, assiduus, continuātus, perpetuus, diuturnus
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Hercules Furens:
- Non prata viridi laeta facie germinant,/nec adulta leni fluctuat Zephyro seges;/non ulla ramos silva pomiferos habet;/sterilis profundi vastitas squalet soli/et foeda tellus torpet aeterno situ— rerumque maestus finis et mundi ultima.
- "No meadows bud, joyous with verdant, / mature waves in the gentle west wind, nor crop; / there is no grove of fruit bearing branches to regard; / barren: and the abysmal fields lie all untilled, / and the foul land lies torpid in abiding sufferance- sad end of things, and the world 's last."
- endless, eternal
- immortal
- Synonym: immortālis
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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Further reading
- “aeternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aeternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aeternus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.