aevum
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See also: ævum
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin aevum (“temporal mode of existence between time and eternity”).[1] Doublet of aeviternity and aye.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈiːvəm/, /ˈaɪ-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈivəm/, /ˈaɪ-/
- Hyphenation: ae‧vum
Noun
aevum (uncountable)
- (Scholastic philosophy) The temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging).
- Synonym: aeviternity
Translations
temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies — see also aeviternity
References
- ^ “aevum, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2021.
Further reading
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
Earlier aevom, aivom, from Proto-Italic *aiwom (“period, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time, lifetime”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈae̯.u̯um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.vum/,
Noun
aevum n (genitive aevī); second declension
- eternity, agelessness, timelessness (time as a single, unified, continuous and limitless entity; infinite time, time without end)
- Synonym: aeternitās
- age, era, term, duration (an undefined, particularly long period of time)
- Synonym: aetās
- (of a person) generation, lifetime, lifespan
- Synonym: aetās
- (Medieval Latin, philosophy) aevum, aeviternity (the mean between time and eternity)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | aevum | aeva |
| genitive | aevī | aevōrum |
| dative | aevō | aevīs |
| accusative | aevum | aeva |
| ablative | aevō | aevīs |
| vocative | aevum | aeva |
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
aevum
References
- “aevum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aevum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aevum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aevum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.