eter

See also: éter, èter, Éter, Èter, and ëter

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ētere. Equivalent to eten (“to eat”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.tər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: eter
• Rhymes: -eːtər

Noun

eter m (plural eters, diminutive etertje n)

1. eater

Derived terms

• alleseter
• bijeneter
• honingeter
• insecteneter
• planteneter
• vleeseter

Anagrams

• eert, reet, teer, tere, tree

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch ether, from Middle Dutch ether, from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛtər/
• Rhymes: -ɛtər, -tər, -ər, -r
• Hyphenation: ètêr

Noun

ètêr (plural eter-eter, first-person possessive eterku, second-person possessive etermu, third-person possessive eternya)

1. ether:
   1. (organic chemistry) organic compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
   2. (historical) fifth element of Aristotelian natural philosophy, supposed to be the building block of the heavens.
   3. (historical, physics) luminiferous aether, medium in which electromagnetic waves were supposed to occur.

Alternative forms

• éter (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “eter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse etari, equivalent to ete +‎ -er.

Noun

eter m (definite singular eteren, indefinite plural etere, definite plural eterne)

1. an eater

Etymology 2

From Latin aether, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Noun

eter m (definite singular eteren, indefinite plural etere, definite plural eterne)

1. ether (chemistry)
2. ether (historical, in physics and philosophy)
3. the airwaves

Etymology 3

Verb

eter

1. present of ete

References

• “eter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [1]

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin aether, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Noun

eter m (definite singular eteren, indefinite plural eterar, definite plural eterane)

1. ether (chemistry)
2. ether (historical, in physics and philosophy)
3. the airwaves

References

• “eter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *enter (whence Welsh ythr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁enter (“between”). Cognate with Latin inter (“between”) and Sanskrit अन्तर् (antár, “between, within, into”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈedʲer/

Preposition

eter

1. between, among
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d10

     Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru. Mógi sidi uili do Día; acht do·rigénsat in descipuil dechor etarru et déu diib: is hed on ɔsecha-som hic.

     Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters. They are all servants to God; but the disciples had made a distinction between them and (made) gods of them; that is what he corrects here.

Inflection

Inflection of eter

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.	etrom, etrum
2d person sing.	etrut
3d sing. masc./neut., dative
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative	etir, itir
3d sing. fem., dative
3d sing. fem., accusative
1st person pl.	etron(n), etrunn	etrunni
2d person pl.	etruib
3d person pl., dative
3d person pl., accusative	etarru, etarro

Descendants

• Irish: idir
• Manx: eddyr
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 273, 510–11

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚽᛏᚽᚱ

Etymology

From Old Norse eitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą.

Noun

ēter n

1. poison, venom
2. pus

Declension

Declension of ētr (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ētr	ētrit	ētr	ētrin
accusative	ētr	ētrit	ētr	ētrin
dative	ētri, ētre	ētrinu, ētreno	ētrum, ētrom	ētrumin, ētromen
genitive	ētrs	ētrsins	ētra	ētranna

Descendants

• Swedish: etter

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English ether, French éther, German Äther, ultimately from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.tɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɛr
• Syllabification: e‧ter

Noun

eter m inan (related adjective eterowy or eteryczny or eterny)

1. (alchemy) quintessence, aether (fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water, that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere)

   Synonym: kwintesencja

2. (broadcasting, colloquial) ether (atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace)
3. (organic chemistry) ether (any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)
4. (informal, organic chemistry) ether, diethyl ether (clear, colorless, highly flammable liquid with a low boiling point and chemical formula CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3; used as a solvent and, in the past, as a general anesthetic)

   Synonym: eter dietylowy

5. (poetic) air (substance constituting Earth's atmosphere, a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases)

   Synonym: powietrze

Declension

Declension of eter

	singular
nominative	eter
genitive	eteru
dative	eterowi
accusative	eter
instrumental	eterem
locative	eterze
vocative	eterze

Related terms

adverbs

• eternie
• eterycznie
• na falach eteru

 

nouns

• eteryczność

 

Further reading

• eter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• eter in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• eter in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French éther, Latin aethēr.

Noun

eter m (plural eteri)

1. (organic chemistry) ether (compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)
2. (archaic, physics) ether (substance once thought to fill all space)

Declension

Declension of eter

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) eter	eterul	(niște) eteri	eterii
genitive/dative	(unui) eter	eterului	(unor) eteri	eterilor
vocative	eterule		eterilor

Noun

eter n (plural eteruri)

1. (figurative) air, sky, atmosphere
2. (ancient philosophy and alchemy, uncountable) ether (classical physical element)

Declension

Declension of eter

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) eter	eterul	(niște) eteruri	eterurile
genitive/dative	(unui) eter	eterului	(unor) eteruri	eterurilor
vocative	eterule		eterurilor

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr); possibly via Latin or Old French.

Noun

eter c

1. ether (a chemical)

   Sedan Morton (1846) lärt känna eterns bedöfvande verkan --Nordisk familjebok (1917)

2. ether (once thought a substance filling all space, carrying electromagnetic waves; or the sky in general)

   Cedern strävar stolt mot eterns dag. --poetry by Erik Johan Stagnelius (c. 1820)

   Eterns tillvaro har ännu ej kunnat direkt påvisas --Nordisk familjebok (1881)

3. ether (as an (imaginary) broadcast medium)

   Lasse arbetade på en lokalradiostation eftersom han gillade att sända sina tankar ut i etern

   Lasse worked at a local radio station because he liked to broadcast his thoughts out into the ether

Declension

Declension of eter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	eter	eters
	definite	etern	eterns
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• eterisk
• etervåg
• etermedium (“radio and TV”)

References

• eter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• eter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• eter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• teer

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اتر (eter), from French éther, from Latin aethēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tɛɾ/

Noun

eter (definite accusative eteri, plural eterler)

1. (chemistry) ether

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	eter
Definite accusative	eteri
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	eter	eterler
Definite accusative	eteri	eterleri
Dative	etere	eterlere
Locative	eterde	eterlerde
Ablative	eterden	eterlerden
Genitive	eterin	eterlerin