aether

See also: Aether and æther

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aether (countable and uncountable, plural aethers)

1. Alternative spelling of ether

Quotations

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

Anagrams

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

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Latin

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

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.

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
• English: ether
• French: éther
• Galician: éter
• German: Äther
• Italian: etere
• Portuguese: éter
• Spanish: éter

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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray