Evane
/ɪˈveɪn/noun
To vanish, disappear, or fade away; an obsolete or rare English verb.
Did you know?Evane belongs to the same Latin word-family as “evanescent,” a word often used for visions, traces, and phenomena that seem to dissolve before the senses.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*wenh₂-
“To be empty, lacking, or vain; a reconstructed root associated with the idea of emptiness.”
Classical Latin
Latin
vānus
“Empty, hollow, void, false, or without substance.”
Classical Latin
Latin
ēvānēscere
“To disappear, gradually fade away, or become nothing.”
Medieval Latin
Latin
ēvāne-/evanescere
“To vanish or pass out of sight; the source of later Romance and English forms.”
16th–17th Century
English
evane
“To vanish or disappear; a rare and now obsolete English verb.”
Modern English
English
evane
“An archaic poetic word meaning “to fade away” or “vanish,” surviving mainly in historical and literary contexts.”