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<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>¦∅¦ eigentlich ‘das Leuchtende, Brennende’;</p>
* eigentlich ‘das Leuchtende, Brennende’;
* '''Äther''' oder '''Aether''' (von altgriechisch ''[[aithḗr]]'' „[blauer] Himmel“) steht für:
* [[Äther (Physik)]], hypothetisches Medium für die Ausbreitung des Lichts im Vakuum
* [[Ether]] oder ''Äther'', chemische Bezeichnung für die funktionelle Gruppe oder Stoffgruppe
* [[Diethylether]], auch ''Äther'', Lösungsmittel, früher gebräuchliches Narkosemittel
* [[Quintessenz (Philosophie)]], fünftes Element in der [[vier Elemente Lehre|Vier-Elemente-Lehre]] von Aristoteles
* [[Aither]] oder Aether, Personifikation des „oberen Himmels“ in der griechischen Mythologie
* [[Akasha]], fünftes Element in der indischen Philosophie<p>¦⊗¦ ‘die reine Himmelsluft, der weite Himmelsraum’;&nbsp; Griech. ''aithḗr'' ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’ wird über gleichbed. lat. ''aethēr'' in der 1. Hälfte des 16. Jhs. von ''Paracelsus'' entlehnt. Es meint in antiker Vorstellung das über einer unteren unreinen, unklaren Luftzone liegende höhere, reine, klare, in den Mittelmeerländern besonders hell und strahlend erscheinende Firmament; Die Bedeutung ‘Narkose-, Lösungsmittel’ geht auf ''Frobenius'' (1730) zurück und schließt sich semantisch an die der älteren Bedeutung zukommenden Merkmale ‘rein, farblos, durchsichtig’ an.&nbsp;</p><p>¦√¦ uig. ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%82eyd%CA%B0- *h<sub>₂</sub>eydʰ-] ''"brennen, Feuer"</p><p>¦↵¦ , grie. aíthō, grie. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%E1%BC%B0%CE%B8%CE%AE%CF%81#Ancient_Greek ''aithḗr''] (αἰθήρ) ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’; griech. ''á͞ithein'' (αἴθειν) ‘anzünden, brennen, leuchten’; lat. ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Latin aethēr]'' ahd. ''æthēr'', ''aether'', mhd. ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_English ēther]'', mengl. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aethyr#English aethyr], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethyr#English ethyr] "Lösungsmittel"; uwger. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/ail *ail], wger. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ail%C4%85 *ailą], air. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A1ed#Old_Irish áed], kelt. [https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/aidos&action=edit&redlink=1 *aidos] ""Feuer""</p><p>Äther m. ‘die reine Himmelsluft, der weite Himmelsraum’. Griech. ''aithḗr'' (αἰθήρ) ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’ wird über gleichbed. lat. ''aethēr'' in der 1. Hälfte des 16. Jhs. von [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus Paracelsus] entlehnt. Es meint in antiker Vorstellung das über einer unteren unreinen, unklaren Luftzone (griech. āḗr, ἀήρ) liegende höhere, reine, klare, in den Mittelmeerländern besonders hell und strahlend erscheinende Firmament und ist eine Ableitung vom Verb griech. ''á͞ithein'' (αἴθειν) ‘anzünden, brennen, leuchten’, danach eigentlich ‘das Leuchtende, Brennende’. Die Bedeutung ‘Narkose-, Lösungsmittel’ geht auf Frobenius (1730) zurück und schließt sich semantisch an die der älteren Bedeutung zukommenden Merkmale ‘rein, farblos, durchsichtig’ an.</p><p>From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English Middle English] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_English ēther]'' (“the ''caelum aetherum'' of ancient cosmology in which the planets orbit; a shining, fluid substance described as a form of air or fire; air”),<sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-1 [1]]</sup> borrowed from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language Anglo-Norman] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Old_French ether]'' and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_French Middle French] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_French ether]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ethere&action=edit&redlink=1 ethere]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Middle_French aether]'', from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French Old French] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Old_French aether]'' (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; medium supposedly filling the upper regions of space”) (modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language French] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9ther#French éther]''), or directly from its [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#etymon etymon] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin Latin] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Latin aethēr]'' (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; air; heavens, sky; light of day; ethereal matter surrounding a deity”) (note also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin Late Latin] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Latin aethēr]'' (“chemical compound analogous to diethyl ether”)), from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%E1%BC%B0%CE%B8%CE%AE%CF%81#Ancient_Greek αἰθήρ]'' (aithḗr, “purer upper air of the atmosphere; heaven, sky; theoretical medium supposed to fill unoccupied space and transmit heat and light”),<sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-OED-2 [2]]</sup><sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-3 [3]]</sup> from ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%E1%BC%B4%CE%B8%CF%89#Ancient_Greek αἴθω]'' (aíthō, “to burn, ignite; to blaze, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European ''*[[h₂eydʰ-]]'' (“to burn; fire”).</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>¦⊕¦ '''Äther''' oder '''Aether''' (von altgriechisch ''aithḗr'' „[blauer] Himmel“) steht für:</p>
<p>The English word is cognate with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language Italian] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Italian ether]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ethera&action=edit&redlink=1 ethera]'' (both obsolete), ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/etere#Italian etere]'', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Dutch Middle Dutch] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_Dutch ether]'' (modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language Dutch] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Dutch aether]'' (obsolete), ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Dutch ether]''), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_High_German Middle High German]''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_High_German ēther]'' (modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language German] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#German aether]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#German ether]'' (obsolete), ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%84ther#German Äther]''), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Portuguese] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9ter#Portuguese éter]'', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language Spanish] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9ter#Spanish éter]''.<sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-OED-2 [2]]</sup></p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ther_(Physik) Äther (Physik)], hypothetisches Medium für die Ausbreitung des Lichts im Vakuum</p>
<p>'''ether''' (''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable countable] and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable]'', ''plural'' '''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethers#English ethers]''')</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ether Ether] oder ''Äther'', chemische Bezeichnung für die funktionelle Gruppe oder Stoffgruppe</p>
<p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#literary literary] or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poetic poetic]) The [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/substance substance] formerly supposed to [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fill#Verb fill] the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upper#Adjective upper] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/region regions] of the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atmosphere atmosphere] above the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cloud#Noun clouds], in particular as a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medium#Noun medium] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/breathe breathed] by [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deity deities].</p><p>(by extension) The medium breathed by [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/human_being human beings]; the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/air#Noun air]. [ quotations ▼]</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylether Diethylether], auch ''Äther'', Lösungsmittel, früher gebräuchliches Narkosemittel</p>
<p>(by extension) The [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sky sky], the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heavens heavens]; the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/void#Noun void], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nothingness nothingness]. [ quotations ▼]</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessenz_(Philosophie) Quintessenz (Philosophie)], fünftes Element in der Vier-Elemente-Lehre von Aristoteles</p>
<p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/physics physics], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#historical historical]) ''Often as'' '''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#English aether]''' ''and more fully as'' '''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/luminiferous_aether#English luminiferous aether]''': a substance once thought to fill all [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unoccupied unoccupied] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/space#Noun space] that [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allow allowed] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/electromagnetic_wave electromagnetic waves] to [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pass_through pass through] it and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interact interact] with [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matter#Noun matter], without [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exert exerting] any [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resistance resistance] to matter or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/energy energy]; its existence was [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disprove disproved] by the 1887 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment Michelson–Morley experiment] and the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/theory_of_relativity theory of relativity]propounded by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein] (1879–1955). [ quotations ▼]</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aither Aither] oder Aether, Personifikation des „oberen Himmels“ in der griechischen Mythologie</p>
<p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#colloquial colloquial]) The atmosphere or space as a medium for [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broadcast#Verb broadcasting] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radio radio] and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/television television] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/signal#Noun signals]; also, a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/notional notional] space through which [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Internet Internet] and other [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/digital digital] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/communication communications][https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_place take place]; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyberspace cyberspace]. [ quotations ▼]</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akasha Akasha], fünftes Element in der indischen Philosophie</p>
<p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#colloquial colloquial]) A particular [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quality#Noun quality] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/create created] by or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surround surrounding] an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/object#Noun object], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/person person], or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/place#Noun place]; an atmosphere, an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aura aura]. [ quotations ▼]</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>¦⊗¦ ‘die reine Himmelsluft, der weite Himmelsraum’;&nbsp; Griech. ''aithḗr'' ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’ wird über gleichbed. lat. ''aethēr'' in der 1. Hälfte des 16. Jhs. von ''Paracelsus'' entlehnt. Es meint in antiker Vorstellung das über einer unteren unreinen, unklaren Luftzone liegende höhere, reine, klare, in den Mittelmeerländern besonders hell und strahlend erscheinende Firmament; Die Bedeutung ‘Narkose-, Lösungsmittel’ geht auf ''Frobenius'' (1730) zurück und schließt sich semantisch an die der älteren Bedeutung zukommenden Merkmale ‘rein, farblos, durchsichtig’ an.&nbsp;</p>
<p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_chemistry organic chemistry]) [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diethyl_ether Diethyl ether] (C<small><sub>4</sub></small>H<small><sub>10</sub></small>O), an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_compound organic compound] with a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweet#Adjective sweet] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/odour odour] used in the past as an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anaesthetic anaesthetic]. [ quotations ▼]</p>


<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>¦√¦ uig. ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%82eyd%CA%B0- *h<sub>₂</sub>eydʰ-] ''"brennen, Feuer"</p>
<p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable countable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_chemistry organic chemistry]) Any of a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/class#Noun class] of [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_compound organic compounds] containing an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oxygen oxygen] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atom atom] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bond#Verb bonded] to two [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hydrocarbon hydrocarbon] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/group#Noun groups]. [ quotations ▼]<br>Alternative forms[[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ether&action=edit&section=5 edit]]</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>¦↵¦ , grie. aíthō, grie. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%E1%BC%B0%CE%B8%CE%AE%CF%81#Ancient_Greek ''aithḗr''] (αἰθήρ) ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’; griech. ''á͞ithein'' (αἴθειν) ‘anzünden, brennen, leuchten’; lat. ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Latin aethēr]'' ahd. ''æthēr'', ''aether'', mhd. ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_English ēther]'', mengl. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aethyr#English aethyr], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethyr#English ethyr] "Lösungsmittel"; uwger. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/ail *ail], wger. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ail%C4%85 *ailą], air. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A1ed#Old_Irish áed], kelt. [https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/aidos&action=edit&redlink=1 *aidos] ""Feuer""</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Äther m. ‘die reine Himmelsluft, der weite Himmelsraum’. Griech. ''aithḗr'' (αἰθήρ) ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’ wird über gleichbed. lat. ''aethēr'' in der 1. Hälfte des 16. Jhs. von [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus Paracelsus] entlehnt. Es meint in antiker Vorstellung das über einer unteren unreinen, unklaren Luftzone (griech. āḗr, ἀήρ) liegende höhere, reine, klare, in den Mittelmeerländern besonders hell und strahlend erscheinende Firmament und ist eine Ableitung vom Verb griech. ''á͞ithein'' (αἴθειν) ‘anzünden, brennen, leuchten’, danach eigentlich ‘das Leuchtende, Brennende’. Die Bedeutung ‘Narkose-, Lösungsmittel’ geht auf Frobenius (1730) zurück und schließt sich semantisch an die der älteren Bedeutung zukommenden Merkmale ‘rein, farblos, durchsichtig’ an.</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English Middle English] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_English ēther]'' (“the ''caelum aetherum'' of ancient cosmology in which the planets orbit; a shining, fluid substance described as a form of air or fire; air”),<sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-1 [1]]</sup> borrowed from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language Anglo-Norman] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Old_French ether]'' and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_French Middle French] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_French ether]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ethere&action=edit&redlink=1 ethere]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Middle_French aether]'', from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French Old French] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Old_French aether]'' (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; medium supposedly filling the upper regions of space”) (modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language French] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9ther#French éther]''), or directly from its [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#etymon etymon] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin Latin] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Latin aethēr]'' (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; air; heavens, sky; light of day; ethereal matter surrounding a deity”) (note also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin Late Latin] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Latin aethēr]'' (“chemical compound analogous to diethyl ether”)), from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%E1%BC%B0%CE%B8%CE%AE%CF%81#Ancient_Greek αἰθήρ]'' (aithḗr, “purer upper air of the atmosphere; heaven, sky; theoretical medium supposed to fill unoccupied space and transmit heat and light”),<sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-OED-2 [2]]</sup><sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-3 [3]]</sup> from ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%E1%BC%B4%CE%B8%CF%89#Ancient_Greek αἴθω]'' (aíthō, “to burn, ignite; to blaze, shine”), from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language Proto-Indo-European] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%82eyd%CA%B0- *h₂eydʰ-]'' (“to burn; fire”).</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>The English word is cognate with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language Italian] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Italian ether]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ethera&action=edit&redlink=1 ethera]'' (both obsolete), ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/etere#Italian etere]'', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Dutch Middle Dutch] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_Dutch ether]'' (modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language Dutch] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#Dutch aether]'' (obsolete), ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Dutch ether]''), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_High_German Middle High German]''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#Middle_High_German ēther]'' (modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language German] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#German aether]'', ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#German ether]'' (obsolete), ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%84ther#German Äther]''), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Portuguese] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9ter#Portuguese éter]'', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language Spanish] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9ter#Spanish éter]''.<sup>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ether#cite_note-OED-2 [2]]</sup></p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>'''ether''' (''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable countable] and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable]'', ''plural'' '''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethers#English ethers]''')</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#literary literary] or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poetic poetic]) The [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/substance substance] formerly supposed to [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fill#Verb fill] the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upper#Adjective upper] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/region regions] of the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atmosphere atmosphere] above the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cloud#Noun clouds], in particular as a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medium#Noun medium] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/breathe breathed] by [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deity deities].</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>(by extension) The medium breathed by [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/human_being human beings]; the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/air#Noun air]. [ quotations ▼]</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>(by extension) The [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sky sky], the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heavens heavens]; the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/void#Noun void], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nothingness nothingness]. [ quotations ▼]</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/physics physics], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#historical historical]) ''Often as'' '''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aether#English aether]''' ''and more fully as'' '''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/luminiferous_aether#English luminiferous aether]''': a substance once thought to fill all [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unoccupied unoccupied] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/space#Noun space] that [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allow allowed] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/electromagnetic_wave electromagnetic waves] to [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pass_through pass through] it and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interact interact] with [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matter#Noun matter], without [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exert exerting] any [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resistance resistance] to matter or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/energy energy]; its existence was [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disprove disproved] by the 1887 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment Michelson–Morley experiment] and the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/theory_of_relativity theory of relativity]propounded by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein] (1879–1955). [ quotations ▼]</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#colloquial colloquial]) The atmosphere or space as a medium for [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broadcast#Verb broadcasting] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radio radio] and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/television television] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/signal#Noun signals]; also, a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/notional notional] space through which [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Internet Internet] and other [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/digital digital] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/communication communications][https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_place take place]; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyberspace cyberspace]. [ quotations ▼]</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#colloquial colloquial]) A particular [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quality#Noun quality] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/create created] by or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surround surrounding] an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/object#Noun object], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/person person], or [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/place#Noun place]; an atmosphere, an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aura aura]. [ quotations ▼]</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable uncountable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_chemistry organic chemistry]) [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diethyl_ether Diethyl ether] (C<small><sub>4</sub></small>H<small><sub>10</sub></small>O), an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_compound organic compound] with a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweet#Adjective sweet] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/odour odour] used in the past as an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anaesthetic anaesthetic]. [ quotations ▼]</p>
 
<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable countable], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_chemistry organic chemistry]) Any of a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/class#Noun class] of [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic_compound organic compounds] containing an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oxygen oxygen] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atom atom] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bond#Verb bonded] to two [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hydrocarbon hydrocarbon] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/group#Noun groups]. [ quotations ▼]<br>Alternative forms[[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ether&action=edit&section=5 edit]]</p>

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äth-er auch manchmal æther, Æther, aether, Ether, Aiter geschrieben oder als Akasha, Quintessenz benannt;

  • eigentlich ‘das Leuchtende, Brennende’;
  • Äther oder Aether (von altgriechisch aithḗr „[blauer] Himmel“) steht für:
  • Äther (Physik), hypothetisches Medium für die Ausbreitung des Lichts im Vakuum
  • Ether oder Äther, chemische Bezeichnung für die funktionelle Gruppe oder Stoffgruppe
  • Diethylether, auch Äther, Lösungsmittel, früher gebräuchliches Narkosemittel
  • Quintessenz (Philosophie), fünftes Element in der Vier-Elemente-Lehre von Aristoteles
  • Aither oder Aether, Personifikation des „oberen Himmels“ in der griechischen Mythologie
  • Akasha, fünftes Element in der indischen Philosophie

    ¦⊗¦ ‘die reine Himmelsluft, der weite Himmelsraum’;  Griech. aithḗr ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’ wird über gleichbed. lat. aethēr in der 1. Hälfte des 16. Jhs. von Paracelsus entlehnt. Es meint in antiker Vorstellung das über einer unteren unreinen, unklaren Luftzone liegende höhere, reine, klare, in den Mittelmeerländern besonders hell und strahlend erscheinende Firmament; Die Bedeutung ‘Narkose-, Lösungsmittel’ geht auf Frobenius (1730) zurück und schließt sich semantisch an die der älteren Bedeutung zukommenden Merkmale ‘rein, farblos, durchsichtig’ an. 

    ¦√¦ uig. *h₂eydʰ- "brennen, Feuer"

    ¦↵¦ , grie. aíthō, grie. aithḗr (αἰθήρ) ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’; griech. á͞ithein (αἴθειν) ‘anzünden, brennen, leuchten’; lat. aethēr ahd. æthēr, aether, mhd. ēther, mengl. aethyr, ethyr "Lösungsmittel"; uwger. *ail, wger. *ailą, air. áed, kelt. *aidos ""Feuer""

    Äther m. ‘die reine Himmelsluft, der weite Himmelsraum’. Griech. aithḗr (αἰθήρ) ‘obere, reine Luft, Himmel’ wird über gleichbed. lat. aethēr in der 1. Hälfte des 16. Jhs. von Paracelsus entlehnt. Es meint in antiker Vorstellung das über einer unteren unreinen, unklaren Luftzone (griech. āḗr, ἀήρ) liegende höhere, reine, klare, in den Mittelmeerländern besonders hell und strahlend erscheinende Firmament und ist eine Ableitung vom Verb griech. á͞ithein (αἴθειν) ‘anzünden, brennen, leuchten’, danach eigentlich ‘das Leuchtende, Brennende’. Die Bedeutung ‘Narkose-, Lösungsmittel’ geht auf Frobenius (1730) zurück und schließt sich semantisch an die der älteren Bedeutung zukommenden Merkmale ‘rein, farblos, durchsichtig’ an.

    From Middle English ēther (“the caelum aetherum of ancient cosmology in which the planets orbit; a shining, fluid substance described as a form of air or fire; air”),[1] borrowed from Anglo-Norman ether and Middle French ether, ethere, aether, from Old French aether (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; medium supposedly filling the upper regions of space”) (modern French éther), or directly from its etymon Latin aethēr (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; air; heavens, sky; light of day; ethereal matter surrounding a deity”) (note also Late Latin aethēr (“chemical compound analogous to diethyl ether”)), from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “purer upper air of the atmosphere; heaven, sky; theoretical medium supposed to fill unoccupied space and transmit heat and light”),[2][3] from αἴθω (aíthō, “to burn, ignite; to blaze, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn; fire”).

The English word is cognate with Italian ether, ethera (both obsolete), etere, Middle Dutch ether (modern Dutch aether (obsolete), ether), Middle High Germanēther (modern German aether, ether (obsolete), Äther), Portuguese éter, Spanish éter.[2]

ether (countable and uncountable, plural ethers)

(uncountable, literary or poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.

(by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air. [ quotations ▼]

(by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness. [ quotations ▼]

(uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativitypropounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). [ quotations ▼]

(uncountable, colloquial) The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communicationstake place; cyberspace. [ quotations ▼]

(uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. [ quotations ▼]

(uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C4H10O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic. [ quotations ▼]

(countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. [ quotations ▼]
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