"éternité" meaning in French

See éternité in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /e.tɛʁ.ni.te/ Audio: Fr-éternité.ogg Forms: éternités [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aeternitās. Etymology templates: {{lbor|fr|la|aeternitās}} Learned borrowing from Latin aeternitās Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} éternité f (plural éternités)
  1. eternity Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-éternité-fr-noun-DAjA0iOv Categories (other): French terms with collocations, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 66 34
  2. (informal) a very long time Tags: feminine, informal
    Sense id: en-éternité-fr-noun-Ulu9ljEG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: æternité [obsolete] Related terms: éternel

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for éternité meaning in French (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "aeternitās"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin aeternitās",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin aeternitās.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "éternités",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "éternité f (plural éternités)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "éternel"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with collocations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "from time immemorial",
          "text": "de toute éternité",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eternity"
      ],
      "id": "en-éternité-fr-noun-DAjA0iOv",
      "links": [
        [
          "eternity",
          "eternity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I haven't seen him for ages.",
          "text": "Ça fait une éternité que je ne l’ai pas vu.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a very long time"
      ],
      "id": "en-éternité-fr-noun-Ulu9ljEG",
      "links": [
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) a very long time"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/e.tɛʁ.ni.te/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-éternité.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/Fr-%C3%A9ternit%C3%A9.ogg/Fr-%C3%A9ternit%C3%A9.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Fr-%C3%A9ternit%C3%A9.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "æternité"
    }
  ],
  "word": "éternité"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "French 4-syllable words",
    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French feminine nouns",
    "French learned borrowings from Latin",
    "French lemmas",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms borrowed from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "aeternitās"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin aeternitās",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin aeternitās.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "éternités",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "éternité f (plural éternités)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "éternel"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "from time immemorial",
          "text": "de toute éternité",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eternity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eternity",
          "eternity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French informal terms",
        "French terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I haven't seen him for ages.",
          "text": "Ça fait une éternité que je ne l’ai pas vu.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a very long time"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) a very long time"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/e.tɛʁ.ni.te/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-éternité.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/Fr-%C3%A9ternit%C3%A9.ogg/Fr-%C3%A9ternit%C3%A9.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Fr-%C3%A9ternit%C3%A9.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "æternité"
    }
  ],
  "word": "éternité"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.