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English
Etymology 1
From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).
Pronunciation
Noun
ethe
- plural of ethos
1892, Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, page 72:And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.
1942, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, International Universities Press, page 85:The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.
2003, Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, page 76:[…] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.
Etymology 2
See eath.
Adjective
ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)
- (obsolete) easy
1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1839, page 330:Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.
Anagrams
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *aida(s), from Proto-Indo-European *h2eidh-o- (“burning fire”). Cognate to Ancient Greek αἶθος (aîthos, “burning, fire”), Old English ád (“funeral pile”), Old Saxon ēd (“firebrand”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ethe f
- fever
References
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 168
Kamba
Noun
ethe
- father
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English īeþe, ēaþe, from Proto-West Germanic *auþī, modification of Proto-Germanic *auþuz.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛːð(ə)/, /ˈeːð(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/
Adjective
ethe
- easy
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Verb
ethe
- Alternative form of eten