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αἰθήρ

aither

clear sky, heaven

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Bacchae 10 · 13.3/10k
Prometheus Bound 7 · 11.9/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 7 · 9.95/10k
Helen 9 · 9.2/10k
De Mundo 5 · 7.89/10k
De Respiratione 4 · 6.59/10k
Ion 6 · 6.56/10k
Epinomis 4 · 6.34/10k
Orestes 6 · 6.12/10k
Trojan Women 4 · 5.65/10k
Phoenissae 5 · 5.18/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 4 · 4.82/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. αἰθήρ · aithēr — Beekes

αἰθήρ, -έρος [f., m.] ‘clear sky, heaven’ (I1.). <1E *h,eid"- ‘kindle, ignite’> eCOMP On αἰθήρ and αἴθρη as a second member (eg. in ὑπαίθριος, ὕπαιθρος) see Sommer 1948: 151f. *DER αἴθρη, -a ‘id.’ (1].); αἰθρίη, -ia ‘clear sky, nice weather’; αἴθριος, -ov [adj.] ‘of the sky, bright’ (IA); the ntr. αἴθριον, diminutive αἰθρίδιον was used in imperial times as a folk-etymological adaptation of Lat. atrium. αἶἷθρος … — [Beekes, s.v. αἰθήρ, p. 83]

2. αἰθήρ · aithēr — LSJ

ether, the heaven, upper, air, sky

ether, the heaven (wrongly distinguished by Aristarch. from ἀήρ (q.v.) as upper from lower air); διʼ ἠέρος αἰθέρʼ ἵκανεν Il. 14.288; [Ζεὺς] αἰθέρι ναίων 2.412, Hes. Op. 18; νόμοι διʼ αἰθέρα τεκνωθέντες S. OT 867; αἰθὴρ μὲν ψυχὰς ὑπεδέξατο σώματα δὲ χθών IG 1.442, cf. E. Supp. 533; of the sky, both cloudless, νήνεμος αἰ. Il. 8.556, and clouded, ἐν αἰθέρι καὶ νεφέλῃσι 15.192, cf. 16.365; freq. in Trag., etc., A. Pr. 1044, 1088, Pers. 365, E. Ba. 150; αἰ. ζοφερός, ἀχλυόεις, A.R. 3.1265, 4.927; of t

2 air

air, Emp. 100.5.

fifth element, Pl. Epin. 981c, 984b, Arist. Cael. 270b22; but equivalent to πῦρ, Anaxag. 1,15.

= πῦρ τεχνικόν, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.168, cf. Arist. Mu. 392a5.

the divine element in the human soul, Philostr. VA 3.34, cf. 42.

II clime, region

clime, region, E. Alc. 594 (lyr.).

Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἰθήρ (scan p. 83; entry #214).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. αἰθήρ (scan p. 46; entry #208).

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