Eternal
late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin aeternalis, from Latin aeternus, from aevum ‘age’.
wiktionary
From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus(“eternal”), from aevum(“age”).
etymonline
eternal (adj.)
late 14c., from Old French eternel "eternal," or directly from Late Latin aeternalis, from Latin aeternus "of an age, lasting, enduring, permanent, everlasting, endless," contraction of aeviternus "of great age," from aevum "age" (from PIE root *aiw- "vital force, life; long life, eternity").
Used since Middle English both of things or conditions without beginning or end and things with a beginning only but no end. A parallel form, Middle English eterne, is from Old French eterne (cognate with Spanish eterno), directly from Latin aeternus. Related: Eternally. The Eternal (n.) for "God" is attested from 1580s.
