evenio

Latin

Etymology

From ex- (“out of”) +‎ veniō (“come”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈu̯e.ni.oː/, [eːˈu̯ɛnioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈve.ni.o/, [eˈvɛːnio]

Verb

ēveniō (present infinitive ēvenīre, perfect active ēvēnī, supine ēventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. (intransitive) to happen, occur
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.775:

     quae precor ēveniant

     [Those things for] which I am praying: May they happen.

   Synonyms: interveniō, expetō, obtingō, obveniō, incurrō, accēdō, incidō, accidō, intercidō, contingō, fīō

2. (intransitive) to come forth
3. (intransitive, followed by the dative) to happen to, befall (someone)
   1. (intransitive, by extension, followed by the dative) to be allotted to (someone)
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 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

Conjugation

Conjugation of ēveniō (fourth conjugation, impersonal in passive)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	ēveniō	ēvenīs	ēvenit	ēvenīmus	ēvenītis	ēveniunt
	imperfect	ēveniēbam	ēveniēbās	ēveniēbat	ēveniēbāmus	ēveniēbātis	ēveniēbant
	future	ēveniam	ēveniēs	ēveniet	ēveniēmus	ēveniētis	ēvenient
	perfect	ēvēnī	ēvēnistī	ēvēnit	ēvēnimus	ēvēnistis	ēvēnērunt, ēvēnēre
	pluperfect	ēvēneram	ēvēnerās	ēvēnerat	ēvēnerāmus	ēvēnerātis	ēvēnerant
	future perfect	ēvēnerō	ēvēneris	ēvēnerit	ēvēnerimus	ēvēneritis	ēvēnerint
passive	present	—	—	ēvenītur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	ēveniēbātur	—	—	—
	future	—	—	ēveniētur	—	—	—
	perfect	—	—	ēventum est	—	—	—
	pluperfect	—	—	ēventum erat	—	—	—
	future perfect	—	—	ēventum erit	—	—	—
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	ēveniam	ēveniās	ēveniat	ēveniāmus	ēveniātis	ēveniant
	imperfect	ēvenīrem	ēvenīrēs	ēvenīret	ēvenīrēmus	ēvenīrētis	ēvenīrent
	perfect	ēvēnerim	ēvēnerīs	ēvēnerit	ēvēnerīmus	ēvēnerītis	ēvēnerint
	pluperfect	ēvēnissem	ēvēnissēs	ēvēnisset	ēvēnissēmus	ēvēnissētis	ēvēnissent
passive	present	—	—	ēveniātur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	ēvenīrētur	—	—	—
	perfect	—	—	ēventum sit	—	—	—
	pluperfect	—	—	ēventum esset, ēventum foret	—	—	—
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	ēvenī	—	—	ēvenīte	—
	future	—	ēvenītō	ēvenītō	—	ēvenītōte	ēveniuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		ēvenīre	ēvēnisse	ēventūrum esse	ēvenīrī	ēventum esse	—
participles		ēveniēns	—	ēventūrus	—	ēventum	ēveniendum, ēveniundum
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		ēveniendī	ēveniendō	ēveniendum	ēveniendō	ēventum	ēventū

Derived terms

• ēventum
• ēventus

Related terms

• adveniō
• antēveniō
• circumveniō
• contrāveniō
• conveniō
• dēveniō
• interveniō
• inveniō
• obveniō
• perveniō
• praeveniō
• prōveniō
• reveniō
• subveniō
• superveniō
• transveniō
• veniō
• ventitō
• ventō
• contingo
• accido

Descendants

• English: evene

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
• evenio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to turn out (well); to result (satisfactorily): eventum, exitum (felicem) habere