aevum

== English == === Alternative forms === ævum (archaic) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin aevum (“temporal mode of existence between time and eternity”). 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 ==== === References === === Further reading === aevum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === mauve == Latin == === Alternative forms === aevom (Old Latin) euum (Medieval Latin) === 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.wũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.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). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Italian: evo Portuguese: evo Romanian: ev Spanish: evo === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== aevum accusative singular of aevus === 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, 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.