ethe

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈiːθiː/

ethe

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of ethos
   • 1892: Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, p72

     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: International Universities Press, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, p85

     The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.

   • 2003: Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, p76

     …it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

See eath.

ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)

1. (obsolete) easy
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, "The Shepheardes Calender", The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown (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.

• thee

• hethe

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *aida(s), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h2eidh-o- 'burning fire'. Cognate to Ancient Greek αἶθος (aîthos, “burning, fire”)^[1], Old English ád (“funeral pile”), Old Saxon ēd (“firebrand”).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɛθɛ/ * (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hɛθɛ/

ethe f

1. fever

ethe

1. father