aether

See also: Aether and æther

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.θə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈi.θɚ/

Noun

aether (countable and uncountable, plural aethers)

1. Alternative spelling of ether

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:aether.

Derived terms

• aether wave
• luminiferous aether

 

Anagrams

• Heater, eather, hearte, heater, hereat, reheat

Latin

Alternative forms

• ēther (medieval)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air; ether”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.tʰeːr/, [ˈäe̯t̪ʰeːr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ter/, [ˈɛːt̪er]

Noun

aethēr m (genitive aetheris); third declension

1. the upper, pure, bright air; ether; the heavens
2. the air or sky; light of day
3. the upper world, the earth (as opposed to the lower world)
4. 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).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aethēr	aetherēs
Genitive	aetheris	aetherum
Dative	aetherī	aetheribus
Accusative	aethera aetherem	aetherēs
Ablative	aethere	aetheribus
Vocative	aethēr	aetherēs

Related terms

• aetherius
• aethra

Descendants

• → Catalan: èter
• → Danish: æter, ether
• → Dutch: ether
  • Afrikaans: eter
  • → Indonesian: ètêr
  • → Japanese: エーテル (ēteru)
• → English: ether
  • → Korean: 에테르 (etereu)
• → French: éther, æther
  • → Czech: éter
  • → Hungarian: éter
  • → Ottoman Turkish: اتر‎ (eter)
    • Turkish: eter
  • → Romanian: eter
  • → Slovak: éter
• → Galician: éter
• → German: Äther, Ether
• → Italian: etere
• → Lithuanian: eteris
• → Norwegian: eter
• → Piedmontese: étere
• → Portuguese: éter
• → Sicilian: ètiri
• → Spanish: éter
• → Swedish: eter

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
• aether in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “aether”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray