aetherius

• aethereus

From Ancient Greek αἰθέριος (aithérios, “of or pertaining to the upper air; ethereal, heavenly”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯ˈtʰɛ.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈt̪ɛː.ri.us]

aetherius (feminine aetheria, neuter aetherium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the ether, the sky, or the air or upper air; ethereal; aloft.
2. Of or pertaining to heaven; celestial, heavenly; sent by heaven; divine.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.682:

     Cum latet, aetheriā spargite sēmen aqua.

     When it lies hidden [in the ground], sprinkle the seed with heavenly water.
     (The imperative plural spargite here is invoking the goddesses Terra and Ceres.)

3. Of or pertaining to the upper world or of the world of the living.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (divine): dīvīnus
• (heavenly, celestial): caeles, caelestīnus, caelestis, caelicus, supernus

• aethēr
• aethra

• English: ethereal
• French: éthéré
• Italian: etereo
• Portuguese: etéreo
• Spanish: etéreo

• “aetherius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aetherius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aetherius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aetherius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.