етер
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Macedonian
Pronunciation
Noun
етер • (eter) m (relational adjective етеричен)
Declension
Declension of етер
Ukrainian
Alternative forms
- ефі́р (efír)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “upper air”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ете́р • (etér) m inan (genitive ете́ру, nominative plural ете́ри, genitive plural ете́рів, relational adjective ете́рний)
- ether (organic chemistry: a compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)
- (uncountable, literary or poetic) ether (the substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere; by extension the sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness).
- (historical, physics) luminiferous aether, aether
- (alchemy) ether
- (broadcasting) air, ether
- в ете́рі ― v etéri ― on air
- прями́й ете́р ― prjamýj etér ― live broadcast (literally, “direct ether”)
Declension
Declension of ете́р (inan hard masc-form accent-a)
Further reading
- “етер”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)