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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [eːˈwɛn.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈvɛn.tus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ēventus''' ''m'' (genitive ēventūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ēveniō]] “to come out, happen” with the suffix of action nouns [[-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The OLD notes datives ⟨ēventū⟩, ⟨ēventuī⟩ and ⟨ēventō⟩, the last in inscriptions.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of an outcome and of success.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the outcome of a situation, issue, result, and Cicero defines ''ēventus'' as the outcome of any business.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant the fulfilment of a dream or prayer, a successful issue, and personified, ''Bonus Ēventus'', a god of good outcome, as in Varro.^(OLD 2012) From Cicero it also meant what comes about, an occurrence, event, and a person's fate, a sense Lewis and Short call rare but classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace uses it of the outcome of a play, and Columella of the issue of growth.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Medieval Latin it could also mean an arrival.^(Niermeyer 1976) [[en|event]] came in the 1570s, through French, first as “the consequence of anything”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of an outcome and of success.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro has ''Bonus Ēventus'' personified.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of events and fate.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1570s – English ''event'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # An [[m|en|outcome]], issue, result; the fulfilment of a dream or prayer.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A successful issue, [[m|en|success]], ''Bonus Ēventus'', Good Outcome personified.^(OLD 2012)
+ # An occurrence, [[m|en|event]]; fate, lot.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # The outcome of a play, dénouement.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Arrival.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[ēveniō]]
+ * [[en|event]]
+ * [[en|eventual]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}