Eventual - this word quite often flashes recently in all kinds of mass media. Despite the fact that for him, like for many foreign borrowings that appear in the language today, there is a domestic analogue, it still becomes popular and is fixed in our "great and mighty".
Origin
Often, to understand the semantics of a word, it is important to find out its etymology. The same is true with the meaning of eventual. This word has explicit Latin roots. The ancestor word is the Latin eventualis, which means "random". It comes from the noun eventus, that is, “outcome”, “chance”, “event”, “incident”.
You can trace the genetics of the word further, deep into the times. So, in the Latin language, there was the prefix ex, which had the meaning “outside” (* eghs with the same meaning in the reconstructed Indo-European), as well as the verb venire, meaning the action “come”, “come”, “arrive”.
Value
So, as it was already possible to conclude from the previous paragraph, the word “eventual” in Russian means “possible”; although it is loaded with additional seme: "under certain circumstances."
In other words, one can pick up such synonyms for the newfangled adjective "eventual" as "potential", "probable".
Use
Since the word “eventual” has recently become part of the Russian language, it still looks rather bulky in comparison with its domestic, more familiar to the ear of a Russian-speaking person, synonyms. This word refers to the book, so that not in any conversation it will be appropriate. The desire to show them in a relaxed conversation, although it can be effective, will nevertheless create an ironic effect. So the main functional style marking the sphere of use of such a word is the official-business or scientific style.
Here are some examples of using the word eventual. In this period of history, relations between Russia and France were quite tense, so the latter was our eventual adversary.
In case you pass an interview and are able to meet all our requirements, we will need to discuss eventual force majeure and tactics of behavior in case of their occurrence.
A destructive explosion with the destruction of all life on the planet, as well as with subsequent influence on space processes in the local star system, was an eventual outcome of the war that was about to start.