eter

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.tər/

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• Hyphenation: eter
• Rhymes: -eːtər

eter m (plural eters, diminutive etertje n)

1. eater

• eert, reet, teer, tere, tree

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

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

ètêr (plural eter-eter)

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

• éter (Standard Malay)

• “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.

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

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

1. an eater

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

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

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

eter

1. present of ete

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

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

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

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

• “eter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈedʲer/

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.

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

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, pages 273, 510–11; reprinted 2017

• ᚽᛏᚽᚱ

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

ēter n

1. poison, venom
2. pus

• Swedish: etter

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.tɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɛr
• Syllabification: e‧ter

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

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

Borrowed from French éther, Latin aethēr.

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)

eter n (plural eteruri)

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

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

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

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

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

• teer

From Ottoman Turkish اتر (eter), from French éther, from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

• IPA^(key): /e.tɛɾ/

eter (definite accusative eteri, plural eterler)

1. (chemistry) ether