different between aether vs empyrean

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i.??/

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• ?ther (medieval)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (aith?r, “air; ether”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ae?.t?e?r/, [?äe?t??e?r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?ae?.ter/, [???ter]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.ter/, [???t??r]

Noun

aeth?r 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. The genitive occasionally appears as the Ancient Greek, aetheros.

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -?r).

Related terms

• aetherius
• aethra

Descendants

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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

English

Etymology

From Latin emp?reus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (empúrios), from ?? (en, “in”) + ??? (pûr, “fire”) (whence English pyre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pa???i?n?/, /?m?p??i.?n/

Noun

empyrean (plural empyreans)

1. (historical) The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy.

Related terms

• pyre

Adjective

empyrean (not comparable)

1. Of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined.
   • 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Saeculare

     Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies;
     Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.

Synonyms

• empyreal

Translations

References

• empyrean in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “empyrean”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Further reading

• empyrean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia