Eterne

Alternative forms

• etern

Origin

From Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus.

Full definition of eterne

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Eternal. 14th-19th c.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:The substance is eterne, and bideth so;
  Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade,
  Doth it consume and into nothing goe ....
• 1602, William Shakespeare, , First Folio 1621, II.2:And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall
  On Mars his Armours, forg'd for proofe Eterne,
  With lesse remorse then Pyrrhus bleeding sword
  Now falles on Priam.
• Elizabeth BrowningBuilt up to eterne significance.

Anagrams

• entree, entrée; teener