αἰθήρ

From αἴθω (aíthō).

αἰθήρ • (aithḗr) m (genitive αἰθέρος); third declension

1. sky
2. aether; ether
3. theoretical medium of great elasticity and extreme thinness of consistency supposed to fill all unoccupied space and transmit light and heat
4. the clear sky

• Greek: αιθήρ (aithír); αιθέρας (aithéras)
• → Arabic: أَثِير (ʔaṯīr, “air”)
• → Bulgarian: етер (eter)
• → Hebrew: אתר (eter)
• → Latin: aethēr (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: եթեր (etʻer)
  • → Armenian: եթեր (etʻer) (learned)
• → Persian: اثیر (asir)
• → Polish: eter
• → Russian: эфи́р (efír)
  • → Bulgarian: ефир (efir)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: етар

  Latin script: etar

• → Ukrainian: ефі́р (efír), ете́р (etér)

• “αἰθήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αἰθήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “αἰθήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αἰθήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἰθήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αἰθήρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “αἰθήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • air idem, page 21.
  • ether idem, page 284.
  • heaven idem, page 393.
  • sky idem, page 781.
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 21, 284
• αἰθήρ, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011