English

Proper noun

Aether

1. (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities, who was the personification of the upper air

English

Noun

aether ‎(countable and uncountable, plural aethers)

1. Alternative spelling of ether

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:aether.

Anagrams

• hearte, heater, hereat, reheat

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.tʰeːr/

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

Inflection

Note that, in Late Latin, the plural is sometimes written as aethera.

Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ēr.

Related terms

• aetherius
• aethra

Descendants

• English: ether
• French: éther
• German: Äther
• Italian: etere
• Portuguese: 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aether”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• aether in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray