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- eventual (adj.) 1610s, "pertaining to events," from French éventuel, from Latin event-, stem of evenire "to come out, happen, result" (see event).
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Sep 28, 2017 · eventual. (adj.) 1610s, "pertaining to events," from French éventuel, from Latin event-, stem of evenire "to come out, happen, result" (see event ). Meaning "ultimately resulting" is by 1823. also from 1610s.
- Eventually
1610s, "pertaining to events," from French éventuel, from...
- Eventually
The earliest known use of the adjective eventual is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for eventual is from 1607, in the writing of Samuel Collins, college head. eventual is formed within English, by derivation.
Sep 28, 2017 · 1610s, "pertaining to events," from French éventuel, from Latin event-, stem of evenire "to come out, happen, result" (see event). Meaning "ultimately resulting" is by 1823.
- Eventual vs. Eventually
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- A Detailed Corpus Research
The adjective eventual didn't exactly lose the "possibility" sense in English but the "finality" sense is the predominant and usual sense. Some dictionaries list the "possibility" sense as archaic but OEDdoesn't list it as archaic and it has an example as recent as 2013. The "possibility" sense might not be as strong as the word "possible" signifie...
OED gives the etymology of eventualas: This indicates that eventual is not directly from Latin eventualisbut formed by derivation within English. Note: The word actualis another false friend that can be analyzed further. OED mentions the origin of event as partly a borrowing from French and partly a borrowing from Latin; and gives the etymons as Fr...
Additionally, I've found a corpus research in Google Books regarding eventual and its "possibility" and "finality" senses. The book is called "New frontiers of corpus research: papers from the Twenty First International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora Sydney 2000" (edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith). It...
The earliest known use of the adverb eventually is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for eventually is from 1614, in the writing of Thomas Adams, Church of England clergyman. eventually is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: eventual adj., ‑ly suffix2.
You use eventual to indicate that something happens at the end of a process or period of time.
happening or existing at a later time or at the end, especially after a lot of effort, problems, etc.: The Dukes were the eventual winners of the competition. Although the original budget for the project was $1 billion, the eventual cost is likely to be 50 percent higher. Fewer examples.
