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αἰθέριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰθέριος

Structure: αἰθερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai)qh/r

Sense

  1. of or in the upper air, high in air, on high, into the air

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ μέσῳ κατέλαμπε σάκει φαέθων κύκλοσ ἀελίοιο ἵπποισ ἂμ πτεροέσσαισ ἄστρων τ’ αἰθέριοι χοροί, Πλειάδεσ, Υἅδεσ, Ἕκτοροσ ὄμμασι τροπαῖοι· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • τρεῖσ ἐτέων δεκάδασ, τριάδασ δύο, μέτρον ἔθηκαν ἡμετέρησ βιοτῆσ μάντιεσ αἰθέριοι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1571)

Synonyms

  1. of or in the upper air

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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