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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe god-personification of the bright, glowing upper air of heaven. He is the Roman counterpart of Aether.
From Old French ether, from Latin aether (“the upper pure, bright air”), from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “upper air”), from αἴθω (aíthō, “to burn, shine”). Doublet of Aether.
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