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eternal
English
Alternative forms
- æternal (chiefly archaic)
- æternall, eternall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aetern?lis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??t?n?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??t??n?l/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n?l
- Hyphenation: eter?nal
Adjective
eternal (not comparable)
- Lasting forever; unending.
- Synonyms: agelong, endless, everlasting, permanent, sempiternal, unending; see also Thesaurus:eternal
- Antonyms: ephemeral, momentary, transient; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
- (philosophy) existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
- Synonyms: timeless, atemporal; see also Thesaurus:timeless
- (hyperbolic) Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
- (dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
- Synonym: awful
Usage notes
May be used postpositively, as in peace eternal, possibly as a result of Latin influence.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
eternal (plural eternals)
- One who lives forever; an immortal.
Anagrams
- enteral, teneral
References
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin aetern?lis, attested from the 14th century.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?.t???nal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?.t?r?nal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /e.te??nal/
Adjective
eternal (masculine and feminine plural eternals)
- eternal
- Synonym: etern
References
Further reading
- “eternal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “eternal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “eternal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin aetern?lis.
Adjective
eternal m or f (plural eternais)
- (formal) eternal
- Synonym: eterno
Further reading
- “eternal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- eterneel, eternall
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French eternal, eternel, from Latin aetern?lis; equivalent to eterne +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t?r?na?l/, /???t?rnal/, /??t?r?n??l/
Adjective
eternal
- Eternal, permanent; having existed (and existing) forever.
- Endless, unending; lasting forever.
- (rare) Long-lasting; non-ephemeral.
Synonyms
- eterne
Descendants
- English: eternal, tarnal
- Scots: eternal
References
- “?tern??l, -??l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin aetern?lis.
Adjective
eternal m (feminine singular eternala, masculine plural eternals, feminine plural eternalas)
- eternal
- Synonym: etèrn
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin aetern?lis.
Adjective
eternal m or f (plural eternais, not comparable)
- eternal
- Synonym: eterno
Further reading
- “eternal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin aetern?lis.
Adjective
eternal (plural eternales)
- eternal
- Synonym: eterno
Further reading
- “eternal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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sustained
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??ste?nd/
- Hyphenation: sus?tained
- Rhymes: -e?nd
Verb
sustained
- simple past tense and past participle of sustain
Adjective
sustained (comparative more sustained, superlative most sustained)
- Held continuously at a certain level.
- (music) Held at a certain pitch.
Synonyms
- (held at a certain level): constant, continuous, steady
Translations
Anagrams
- insudates
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