# event
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪˈvɛnt/, /iˈvɛnt/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (weak vowel merger) IPA: /əˈvɛnt/
* (Indic) IPA: /ˈiːveɳʈ/
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

#### Noun

event (plural events)
* An occurrence; something that happens.
** 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:the events of his early years
** 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 67:Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.
* A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
    I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
    Where will the event be held?
* One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
* An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 3:hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
** 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
    Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.
** 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fourth. The Christian Triumph.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:dark doubts between the promise and event
    In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
* (figurative, uncommon, dated) A remarkable person.
    Synonym: sensation
** 1985, Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, spoken by Mr. Pye (Richard Pearson):Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
* (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
* (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
* (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
    If $X$ is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: $X=1$, $X=2$, $X\geq 5,X\not =4,$ and $X\in \{1,3,5\}$.
* (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:Leave we him to his events.
* (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

##### Hyponyms

* blessed event
* credit event
* current events
* doomsday event
* episodic events
* extinction event
* media event
* quick time event
* risk event
* sentinel event
* social event
* speciation event

##### Derived terms

* adverse event
* after-event
* afterevent
* anoxic event
* at any event
* bioevent
* black swan event
* Bond event
* canon event
* certain event
* Christ event
* coevent
* combined event
* cosmic event horizon
* doujin event
* energetic event
* event-based
* event-based programming
* event data recorder
* event derivative
* event-driven
* event-driven architecture
* event-driven programming
* eventer
* eventful
* eventgoer
* event-goer
* event handler
* eventhood
* evential
* eventify
* eventism
* eventive
* eventization
* eventize
* eventless
* eventlike
* event loop
* event marketing
* eventness
* eventology
* event recorder
* event-related potential
* eventscape
* event sink
* event time
* event tree
* eventual
* extinction event
* extinction level event
* field event
* impossible event
* in any event
* interevent
* in the event of
* in the event that
* it is easy to be wise after the event
* K-T extinction event
* Lago Mare event
* life event
* liquidity event
* main event
* mass extinction event
* megaevent
* Messinian event
* microevent
* misevent
* Miyake event
* multievent
* never event
* non-event
* nonevent
* perievent
* postevent
* pseudoevent
* road event
* signalling event
* special event
* subevent
* tail event
* then and in that event
* track event
* transient luminous event
* Triassic-Jurassic extinction event
* Tunguska event
* unevent
* whiting event

##### Related terms

* event horizon
* in the event
* wise after the event

##### Translations

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##### Further reading

* “event”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “event”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

#### Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)
* (obsolete) To occur, take place.
** 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,
    […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

### Etymology 2

From French éventer.

#### Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)
* (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
** c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,
    ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
    The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.
** 1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene‎, Aberdeen, published 1799, page 12:This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.
* (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
** 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,
    For as I would my gorget have undon
    To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,
    An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,
    Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.
** 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),
    […] as Phœbus throws
    His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,
    Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d
    A loose and rorid vapour that is fit
    T’ event his searching beams, and useth it
    To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,
    Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛˈvɛnt/

### Noun

event
* An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).
    Det var et stort event i Stockholmsmessen idag.There was a big event in the Stockholm fair today.

#### Declension

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#### Related terms

* begivenhed

### See also

* eventuel

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus, from ēveniō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈi.vɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ivɛnt
* Syllabification: e‧vent

### Noun

event m inan
* event (prearranged social activity)
    Hypernym: wydarzenie

#### Declension
### Further reading

* event in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* event in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛˈvɛnt/

### Noun

event n
* An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).
    Det var ett stort event i Stockholmsmässan idag.There was a big event in the Stockholm fair today.

#### Related terms

* evenemang
* eventuell

### Anagrams

* teven, veten