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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la veniō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [eːˈwɛ.ni.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈvɛː.ni.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ēveniō''' (present infinitive ēvenīre, perfect active ēvēnī, supine ēventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ex-]] and [[veniō]] “to come”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Ennius, Plautus and Pomponius have subjunctives ⟨ēvenat⟩, ⟨ēvenant⟩ for ⟨ēveniat⟩, ⟨ēveniant⟩, and the manuscripts sometimes confuse the two forms.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of coming out and of happening.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Its literal sense, to come out, emerge, is rare, as Horace's ''pulchrior ēvenit'' “it comes up fairer”, and Columella uses it of a plant coming up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) With a dative it meant to fall to someone by lot, as in Sallust.^(OLD 2012) Its common sense was to happen, come about, happen to someone, turn out, and of prophecies and prayers to come true, all from Plautus onwards, and Tibullus uses the neuter plural future participle for future events.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''ēvenīre'' is used of an expected, foreseen occurrence, ''accidere'' of an unexpected one.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to come out, come forth, happen, befall.^(Stelten 1995) Its noun [[ēventus]] gave [[en|event]] in the 1570s, through French.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of coming out and of happening.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of falling by lot.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus uses ''ēventūra'' of future events.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To come out, [[m|en|emerge]]; of plants, to come up.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # To fall by lot, be allotted (to).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|happen]], come about; to happen to.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To turn out; of prophecies or prayers, to come true.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''ēventūra'', future events.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[ēventum]]
+ * [[ēventus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[adveniō]]
+ * [[antēveniō]]
+ * [[circumveniō]]
+ * [[contrāveniō]]
+ * [[conveniō]]
+ * [[dēveniō]]
+ * [[interveniō]]
+ * [[inveniō]]
+ * [[obveniō]]
+ * [[perveniō]]
+ * [[veniō]]
+ * [[accidō]]
+ * [[en|event]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}