Éce

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

éce

adj. Dele bracket, and add: I. perpetual, to all time:--Oð ðone fyrst þe hé bócland and ǽce yrfe geearnige, Solil. H. 2, 12. Hé on feorhgebeorh foldan hæfde eallum eorðcynne éce láfe frumcneów gehwæs túddorteóndra he (Noah) to save life for all that lives on earth had a remnant that should perpetuate it, to wit, the primal generation of everything that has offspring (i. e. from the creatures saved in the ark would come a progeny that would last till the end of time), Exod. 370. On þæt gerád þæt hié him siþþan éce þeówas wǽren, Ors. 3, 8; S. 122, 4. Écum rictum jure perpetuo, An. Ox. 11, 114. II. eternal:--Hú éce ðæt is ðæt hié wilniað, hú gewítende ðæt is ðæt hié onscuniað . . . hú éciu (écu, ) ðá ðing sint, Past. 299, 8-10. Deádlic and gewítendlic, þe á libbendu and écu, Solil. H. 3, 5. Reste þǽre écean quietis aeternae, An. Ox. 40, 19. On écium fýre, Past. 328, 9. Ne synt ðreó écean, Ath. Crd. 11. Gooda gifu, þeáh hí éca ne sién, Solil. H. 53, 4. Þára écena háma, 2, 14. [v. N. E. D. eche. Cf. Goth. ajuk-duþs.] v. þan-écan, and cf. wídefeorh-lic. ece

Mots connexes: l. aeterna