aether
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Noun
aether (countable and uncountable, plural aethers)
- Alternative spelling of ether
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:aether.
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air; ether”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈae̯.tʰeːr/, [ˈäe̯t̪ʰeːr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ter/, [ˈɛːt̪er]
Noun
aethēr m (genitive aetheris); third declension
- the upper, pure, bright air; ether; the heavens
- the air or sky; light of day
- the upper world, the earth (as opposed to the lower world)
- the brightness or ethereal matter surrounding a deity
Declension
Note that, in Late Latin, the plural is sometimes written as aethera. The genitive occasionally appears as the Ancient Greek, aetheros.
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ēr).
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References
- “aether”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aether”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “aether”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
- “aether”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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