ethe

English

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːθiː/

Noun

ethe

1. plural of ethos
   • 1892: Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, p72

     And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.

   • 1942: International Universities Press, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, p85

     The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.

   • 2003: Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, p76

     […] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

Etymology 2

See eath.

Adjective

ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)

1. (obsolete) easy
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, "The Shepheardes Calender", The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown (1839), page 330:

     Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.

Anagrams

• Thee, the'e, thee

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• hethe

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *aida(s), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h2eidh-o- (“burning fire”). Cognate to Ancient Greek αἶθος (aîthos, “burning, fire”), Old English ád (“funeral pile”), Old Saxon ēd (“firebrand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛθɛ/ * IPA^(key): /hɛθɛ/

Noun

ethe f

1. fever

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Kamba

Noun

ethe

1. father