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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 |

  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.

Etymology 2

See (deprecated template usage) eath.

Adjective

ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (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.

Anagrams


Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:term/t 'burning fire'. Cognate to Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) αἶθος (aîthos)[1], Old English (deprecated template usage) ád, Old Saxon (deprecated template usage) ēd.

Pronunciation

Noun

ethe f

  1. fever

References

  1. ^ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.168