aether

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

aether (countable and uncountable, plural aethers)

1. Alternative spelling of ether

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

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

• ēther (medieval)

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

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

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

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).

• aetherius
• aethra

• “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