ævum(archaic)

Learned borrowing fromLatinaevum(“temporal mode of existence between time and eternity”).^[1]Doublet ofaeviternity andaye.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈiːvəm/,/ˈaɪ-/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈivəm/,/ˈaɪ-/
• Hyphenation:ae‧vum

aevum (uncountable)

1. (Scholasticphilosophy) Thetemporalmode ofexistence betweentime andeternity,said to beexperienced byangels,saints, andcelestial bodies (whichmedievalastronomybelieved to beunchanging).

   Synonym:aeviternity

•  aevum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mauve

• aevom(Old Latin)
• euum(Medieval Latin)

Earlieraevom,aivom, fromProto-Italic*aiwom(“period, age”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂eyu-(“long time, lifetime”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈae̯.u̯um/,[ˈäe̯u̯ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈe.vum/,[ˈɛːvum]

aevum n (genitiveaevī);second declension

1. eternity,agelessness,timelessness(time as asingle,unified,continuous andlimitlessentity;infinitetime,time without end)

   Synonym:aeternitās

2. age,era,term,duration(anundefined, particularly longperiod of time)

   Synonym:aetās

3. (of a person)generation,lifetime,lifespan

   Synonym:aetās

4. (Medieval Latin,philosophy)aevum,aeviternity(the mean between time and eternity)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Italian:evo
• Portuguese:evo
• Romanian:ev
• Spanish:evo

aevum

1. accusativesingular ofaevus

• “aevum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aevum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aevum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aevum inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.