aevum

Learned borrowing from Latin aevum (“temporal mode of existence between time and eternity”).[1] Doublet of aeviternity and aye.

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

aevum (uncountable)

1. (Scholastic philosophy) The temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging).

   Synonym: aeviternity

• aevum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mauve

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

Earlier aevom, aivom, from Proto-Italic *aiwom (“period, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time, lifetime”).

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

aevum n (genitive aevī); second declension

1. (principally): time as a single, unified, continuous and limitless entity; infinite time, time without end; to wit: eternity, agelessness, timelessness

   Synonym: aeternitās

2. (restrictedly): an undefined, particularly long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration

   Synonym: aetās

3. (restrictedly, pertaining to a person): generation, lifetime, lifespan

   Synonym: aetās

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

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