Latin

Verb

ēveniō ‎(present infinitive ēvenīre, perfect active ēvēnī, supine ēventum); fourth conjugation

1. (intransitive) I happen, occur.
2. (intransitive) I come forth.
3. (intransitive, followed by the dative) I happen to, befall (someone).
   1. (intransitive, by extension, followed by the dative) I am allotted to (someone).
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1

        C. Sulpicio cui Sicilia euenerat duae legiones quas P. Cornelius habuisset decretae et supplementum de exercitu Cn. Fului, qui priore anno in Apulia foede caesus fugatusque erat.

        To Gaius Sulpicius to whom Sicily was allotted two legions which Publius Cornelius had held were decided upon and reinforcements from Gnaius Fulvius’ army, which in the previous year had been shamefully defeated decisively and put to flight in Apulia

Inflection

Derived terms

• ēventum
• ēventus

Related terms

Descendants

• English: event, eventual, eventually, eventuality
• French: événement, éventualité
• Italian: evento, eventualità
• Spanish: eventual, eventualidad
• Portuguese: evento, eventualidade
• Romanian: eveniment, eventualitate
• Catalan: event, eventualitat
• Afrikaans: evenement, eventuele, eventualiteit
• Bulgarian: евентуален ‎(eventualen), евентуално ‎(eventualno), евентуалност ‎(eventualnost)
• Czech: eventualita
• German: Eventualität
• Polish: ewentualność

References

• evenio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• evenio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “evenio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to turn out (well); to result (satisfactorily): eventum, exitum (felicem) habere