different between event vs fasti

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/, /??v?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

event (plural events)

1. An occurrence; something that happens.
2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

   • hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

   • 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

     Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

   • dark doubts between the promise and event

   In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

5. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
6. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
7. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

   If ${\displaystyle X}$ is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: ${\displaystyle X=1}$, ${\displaystyle X=2}$, ${\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,}$ and ${\displaystyle X\in \{1,3,5\}}$.

8. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
9. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

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Further reading

• event in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• event in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,^[1]

     […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

Etymology 2

From French éventer.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
   • c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,^[2]

     ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold

     The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

   • 1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene, Aberdeen, 1799, p. 12,^[3]

     This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
   • 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,^[4]

     For as I would my gorget have undon

     To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,

     An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,

     Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

   • 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),^[5]

     […] as Phœbus throws

     His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,

     Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d

     A loose and rorid vapour that is fit

     T’ event his searching beams, and useth it

     To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,

     Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/

Noun

event

1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

• begivenhed

See also

• eventuel

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/

Noun

event n

1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

• evenemang
• eventuell

Anagrams

• teven, veten

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin f?st?.

Noun

fasti pl (plural only)

1. The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
2. Records or registers of important events.

Coordinate terms

• nefasti

Anagrams

• Fiats, fiats

Esperanto

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare English fast, German fasten, from Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fasti/
• Rhymes: -asti

Verb

fasti (present fastas, past fastis, future fastos, conditional fastus, volitive fastu)

1. (intransitive) to fast

Conjugation

Descendants

• Ido: fastar

Related terms

• fasto

Italian

Noun

fasti m

1. plural of fasto

Anagrams

• sfati

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa?s.ti?/, [?fä?s?t?i?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fas.ti/, [?f?st?i]

Noun

f?st?

1. inflection of f?stus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

References

• fasti in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fasti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.