Eventide is the evening, in poetic use. At eventide, the peace of eventide, eventide home.
It is archaic and belongs to hymns and to older poetry. The even in it is the old word for evening, which also gave us eve and evensong. An eventide home was a mid-century name for a home for elderly people, and it now sounds dated.
1nouneventideThe evening, in poetic use.
“The old poem describes shepherds bringing their flocks home at eventide.”
eventide is a time of day.
Old English aefentid, from aefen, evening, plus tid, a time. Tide once meant a time rather than the sea's rise.
Old English
ǣfentīd
Middle English
eventyde
English, today
eventide
Built from
From Middle English eventyde, from Old English ǣfentīd, derived from ǣfen (“evening”) + tīd (“time”). by surface analysis, even + -tide.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA