different between aether vs hether

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

Noun

hether (countable and uncountable, plural hethers)

1. Obsolete spelling of heather

Adverb

hether (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of hither
2. Obsolete spelling of helder