eve
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection.[1] See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
In medieval Europe, days were considered to extend from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight, so the night before a holiday was considered part of it, hence its "eve".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]eve (plural eves)
- The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
- (archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
- Mid-19th century, John Clare, Autumn:
- I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve
- 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, chapter XXVII, in A Shropshire Lad, lines 42–43:
- And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.
- 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
- Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
- (figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
Synonyms
[edit]- (evening): een, eventide, forenight; see also Thesaurus:evening
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]day or night before
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period of time when something is about to happen
References
[edit]- ^ “eve”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading
[edit]- “eve”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Äiwoo
[edit]Numeral
[edit]eve
References
[edit]- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Ewe
[edit]| < 1 | 2 | 3 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : eve Ordinal : evelia | ||
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]eve
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Slang, from ekstaasi (folk-etymologically connected with the nickname Eve, with which it is unrelated)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]eve (slang)
- ecstasy (drug)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of eve (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | eve | evet | |
| genitive | even | evejen | |
| partitive | eveä | evejä | |
| illative | eveen | eveihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | eve | evet | |
| accusative | nom. | eve | evet |
| gen. | even | ||
| genitive | even | evejen evein rare | |
| partitive | eveä | evejä | |
| inessive | evessä | eveissä | |
| elative | evestä | eveistä | |
| illative | eveen | eveihin | |
| adessive | evellä | eveillä | |
| ablative | eveltä | eveiltä | |
| allative | evelle | eveille | |
| essive | evenä | eveinä | |
| translative | eveksi | eveiksi | |
| abessive | evettä | eveittä | |
| instructive | — | evein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]eve (present tense ever, past tense eva or evet, past participle eva or evet)
- (reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet
References
[edit]- “eve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse efa, ifa.[1] Compare also with earlier ivast.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]eve (present tense evar, past tense eva, past participle eva, passive infinitive evast, present participle evande, imperative eve/ev)
- (reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet
Noun
[edit]eve m (definite singular even, indefinite plural evar, definite plural evane)
Etymology 2
[edit]Related to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.[1]
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]eve f (definite singular eva, indefinite plural ever, definite plural evene)
References
[edit]Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]eve oblique singular, f (oblique plural eves, nominative singular eve, nominative plural eves)
Rapa Nui
[edit]Noun
[edit]eve
Turkish
[edit]Noun
[edit]eve
Zazaki
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ev (southern zazaki)
Article
[edit]eve
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