eternal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Lasting forever; without end.

   They promised each other eternal love.

2. 2
   adj

   Seeming to go on forever in an annoying way; constant.

   I'm tired of their eternal arguing.

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Simplified etymology

Eternal entered English in the late Middle English period and ultimately derives from Latin aevum, ‘time’. The same Latin source also lies behind age and primeval.

From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”). Displaced native Old English ēċe.

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