eterne

Alternative forms

• etern

Etymology

From Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus.

Adjective

eterne (comparative more eterne, superlative most eterne)

1. (obsolete) Eternal. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

     The substance is eterne, and bideth so; / Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade, / Doth it consume and into nothing goe [...].

   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio 1621, II.2:

     And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall / On Mars his Armours, forg'd for proofe Eterne, / With lesse remorse then Pyrrhus bleeding sword / Now falles on Priam.

   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     Eterne, intense, profuse,—still throwing up
     The golden spray of multitudinous worlds
     In measure to the proclive weight and rush
     Of His inner nature […]

Anagrams

• entree, entrée, rentee, retene, teener

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈterne/

Adverb

eterne

1. forever, eternally

Adjective

eterne

1. feminine plural of eterno

Anagrams

• tenere

Noun

eterne m

1. definite plural of eter