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eterne [ih-turn] ExamplesWord Origin adjective Archaic.
Origin of eterne 1325–75; Middle English Latin aeternus, contraction of aeviternus, equivalent to aev(um) age + -i- -i- + -ternus, extended form of -ernus suffix of temporal adjectives Examples from the Web for eterne Historical Examples of eterne
She engendered them in her own fruitful breast, and her “copy is eterne.”
Life: Its True Genesis
R. W. Wright
The form ‘eterne’ occurs in Shakespeare only in Macbeth, iii.
Shakespearean Tragedy
A. C. Bradley
British Dictionary definitions for eterne eterne adjective
- an archaic or poetic word for eternal
Word Origin for eterne C14: from Old French, from Latin aeternus
