eve

Meaning

Noun

• The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
• Evening, night.
• The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced

Origin

• From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic even, from the same source.