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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αἰθέριος (aithérios, “of or pertaining to the upper air; ethereal, heavenly”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
aetherius (feminine aetheria, neuter aetherium); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to the ether, the sky, or the air or upper air; ethereal; aloft.
- Of or pertaining to heaven; celestial, heavenly; sent by heaven; divine.
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 1.682:
- Cum latet, aetheriā spargite sēmen aqua.
- When it lies hidden , sprinkle the seed with heavenly water.
(The imperative plural spargite here is invoking the goddesses Terra and Ceres.)
- Of or pertaining to the upper world or of the world of the living.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “aetherius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aetherius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "aetherius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aetherius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.