aevĭtas

I. the time through which a person lives or a thing lasts, the time of existence.

I. Lit.: qua voluptate aevitatis extimam attigit metam aevitas, Varr. ap. Non. p. 193, 7: censores populi aevitates, suboles, familias pecuniasque censento, Cic. Leg. 3, 7: SI MORBVS AEVITASVE VITIVM ESCIT, Leg. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25; Arn. 5, 8.—

II. Trop.

A. Of the future, time unending, immortality: sed etiam mortales deos ad aevitatem temporis edidit, App. Dogm. Plat. 1, 120.—

B. Of the past: quid operis aut negotii celebrans anteacti temporis decurrerit aevitatem, Arn. 2, 22.