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See also: éter, èter, Éter, Èter, and ëter

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ētere. Equivalent to eten (“to eat”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.tər/
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  • Hyphenation: eter
  • Rhymes: -eːtər

Noun

eter m (plural eters, diminutive etertje n)

  1. eater

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Indonesian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch ether, from Middle Dutch ether, from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Pronunciation

Noun

ètêr (plural eter-eter, first-person possessive eterku, second-person possessive etermu, third-person possessive eternya)

  1. ether:
    1. (organic chemistry) organic compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
    2. (historical) fifth element of Aristotelian natural philosophy, supposed to be the building block of the heavens.
    3. (historical, physics) luminiferous aether, medium in which electromagnetic waves were supposed to occur.

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Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1

From Old Norse etari, equivalent to ete +‎ -er.

Noun

eter m (definite singular eteren, indefinite plural etere, definite plural eterne)

  1. an eater

Etymology 2

From Latin aether, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Noun

eter m (definite singular eteren, indefinite plural etere, definite plural eterne)

  1. ether (chemistry)
  2. ether (historical, in physics and philosophy)
  3. the airwaves

Etymology 3

Verb

eter

  1. present of ete

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn
 eterar on Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin aether, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Noun

eter m (definite singular eteren, indefinite plural eterar, definite plural eterane)

  1. ether (chemistry)
  2. ether (historical, in physics and philosophy)
  3. the airwaves

References

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *enter (whence Welsh ythr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁enter (“between”). Cognate with Latin inter (“between”) and Sanskrit अन्तर् (antár, “between, within, into”).

Pronunciation

Preposition

eter

  1. between, among
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d10
      Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru. Mógi sidi uili do Día; acht do·rigénsat in descipuil dechor etarru et déu diib: is hed on ɔsecha-som hic.
      Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters. They are all servants to God; but the disciples had made a distinction between them and (made) gods of them; that is what he corrects here.

Inflection

Inflection of eter
Person Normal Emphatic
1st person sing. etrom, etrum
2d person sing. etrut
3d sing. masc./neut., dative
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative etir, itir
3d sing. fem., dative
3d sing. fem., accusative
1st person pl. etron(n), etrunn etrunni
2d person pl. etruib
3d person pl., dative
3d person pl., accusative etarru, etarro

Descendants

  • Irish: idir
  • Manx: eddyr
  • Scottish Gaelic: eadar

Further reading

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse eitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą.

Noun

ēter n

  1. poison, venom
  2. pus

Declension

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  Declension of eter (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ētr ētrit ētr ētrin
accusative ētr ētrit ētr ētrin
dative ētri, ētre ētrinu, ētreno ētrum, ētrom ētrumin, ētromen
genitive ētrs ētrsins ētra ētranna

Descendants

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French éther, from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Pronunciation

Noun

eter m inan

  1. ether (any compound with to hydrocarbon groups bonded to an oxygen atom)
  2. (informal) diethyl ether
  3. (colloquial) ether (atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals)

Declension

Declension of eter
singular plural
nominative eter etery
genitive eteru eterów
dative eterowi eterom
accusative eter etery
instrumental eterem eterami
locative eterze eterach
vocative eterze etery

Further reading

  • eter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • eter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French éther, Latin aethēr.

Noun

eter m (plural eteri)

  1. (organic chemistry) ether (compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)
  2. (archaic, physics) ether (substance once thought to fill all space)

Declension

Declension of eter
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) eter eterul (niște) eteri eterii
genitive/dative (unui) eter eterului (unor) eteri eterilor
vocative eterule eterilor

Noun

eter n (plural eteruri)

  1. (figurative) air, sky, atmosphere
  2. (ancient philosophy and alchemy, uncountable) ether (classical physical element)

Declension

Declension of eter
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) eter eterul (niște) eteruri eterurile
genitive/dative (unui) eter eterului (unor) eteruri eterurilor
vocative eterule eterurilor

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr); possibly via Latin or Old French.

Noun

eter c

  1. ether (a chemical)
    Sedan Morton (1846) lärt känna eterns bedöfvande verkan --Nordisk familjebok (1917)
  2. ether (once thought a substance filling all space, carrying electromagnetic waves; or the sky in general)
    Cedern strävar stolt mot eterns dag. --poetry by Erik Johan Stagnelius (c. 1820)
    Eterns tillvaro har ännu ej kunnat direkt påvisas --Nordisk familjebok (1881)
  3. ether (as an (imaginary) broadcast medium)
    Lasse arbetade på en lokalradiostation eftersom han gillade att sända sina tankar ut i etern
    Lasse worked at a local radio station because he liked to broadcast his thoughts out into the ether

Declension

Declension of eter 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative eter etern — —
Genitive eters eterns — —

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اتر (eter), from French éther, from Latin aethēr.

Pronunciation

Noun

eter (definite accusative eteri, plural eterler)

  1. (chemistry) ether

Declension

Inflection
Nominative eter
Definite accusative eteri
Singular Plural
Nominative eter eterler
Definite accusative eteri eterleri
Dative etere eterlere
Locative eterde eterlerde
Ablative eterden eterlerden
Genitive eterin eterlerin
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