eterno – Italian adjective declension

Italian adjective forms of eterno

Adjective: eterno

Hyphenation: e‧tèr‧no
Singular m.eterno
Singular f.eterna
Plural m.eterni
Plural f.eterne

Sample Sentences

  • Il corto termine alla vita posto
  • Non è da consumare in quelle cose,
  • che ’l bene eterno ci fanno nascosto. (The short limit set to life is not to be consumed in those things which make the eternal goodness hidden from us.) [1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione [Loving Vision], published 1833, page 11:]
  • Piena d’un foco eterno è quella mazza,
  • Che senza consumarsi ogn’hora avampa;
  • Ne per buon scudo o tempra di corazza
  • O per grossezza d’elmo se ne scampa. (That mace is filled with an eternal fire, always burning without ever dying out; and no good shield, or tempered armour/armor, or thick helm is enough to escape it.) [1516, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto quarantesimosecondo [Forty-second Canto]”, in Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 195:]
  • Infin quel dì, che pria la punse Amore,
  • Andromeda ebbe sempre affanno e noia;
  • Poi ch’a Perseo si diè, diletto e gioia
  • Seguilla viva, e morta eterno onore. (Until that day, before she was stung by Love, Andromeda was always bothered and bored; after she gave herself to Perseus, she was followed by delight and joy in life, and eternal honour/honor in death.) [1530, Pietro Bembo, “Libro I, Capitolo III [Book 1, Chapter 3]”, in Gli asolani, published 1989:]
  • Odio all’emula Roma acerbo eterno
  • Giurava il forte Annibale su l’ara:
  • Nè a vuoto usciva la minaccia amara,
  • Che gli era anzi di Gloria eccelso perno. (Harsh, eternal hatred to the rival Rome swore Hannibal the strong upon the altar; and the bitter threat was not in vain, but instead was paramount crux of glory to him.) [1799, Vittorio Alfieri, “Proemio”, in Misogallo [The French-Hater], London, page 51, lines 1–4:]
  • Vagar mi fai co’ miei pensier su l’orme
  • Che vanno al nulla eterno; e intanto fugge
  • Questo reo tempo, e van con lui le torme
  • Delle cure, onde meco egli si strugge (You make me wander with my thoughts, on footprints leading to eternal nothingness; meanwhile, this guilty time passes, and with him the crowds of worries that make him struggle along with me) [1803, Ugo Foscolo, “Alla sera [To the Evening]”, in Sonetti [Sonnets]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonetti_(Foscolo)), collected in Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo, vol. 2, Florence, published 1835, page 116:]

Etymology

First attested 14th century. From Latin aeternus, from an earlier form aeviternus, derived from aevum (“time; age”). See: Latin Adjectives 'aeternus'.

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