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English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

ethe |

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    • 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.

Etymology 2

See (deprecated template usage) eath.

Adjective

ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) easy
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Anagrams


Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian Template:recons, from earlier Template:recons, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:recons 'burning fire'. Cognate to Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) αἶθος (aîthos).

Pronunciation

Noun

ethe f

  1. fever