Aethes

Translingual

Etymology

PIE word
*swé

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀήθης (aḗthēs, “strange, unusual”). Further from ἦθος (êthos), ἔθος (éthos, “one's nature or character”), ἔθω (éthō, “to be accustomed to, to tend to”), Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁- (“one's character”), *swé (“self”, reflexive pronoun).

Coined by Swedish naturalist Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820.

Proper noun

Aethes f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tortricidae – many leafroller moths.

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