ethe

English

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːθiː/

Noun

ethe

1. plural of ethos
   • 1892, Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, page 72:

     And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.

   • 1942, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, International Universities Press, page 85:

     The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.

   • 2003, Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, page 76:

     […] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

Etymology 2

See eath.

Adjective

ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)

1. (obsolete) easy
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1839, page 330:

     Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.

Anagrams

• Thee, the'e, thee

Albanian

Alternative forms

• hethe

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *aida(s), from Proto-Indo-European *h2eidh-o- (“burning fire”). Cognate to Ancient Greek αἶθος (aîthos, “burning, fire”), Old English ád (“funeral pile”), Old Saxon ēd (“firebrand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛθɛ/ * IPA^(key): /hɛθɛ/

Noun

ethe f

1. fever

Kamba

Noun

ethe

1. father

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English īeþe, ēaþe, from Proto-West Germanic *auþī, modification of Proto-Germanic *auþuz.

Alternative forms

• eithe, ith

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːð(ə)/, /ˈeːð(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/

Adjective

ethe

1. easy

Descendants

• English: eath
• Scots: eith
• Yola: eeth, eêth, eafe, eeefe

References

• “ēth(e, ẹ̄th(e, predicate adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

ethe

1. Alternative form of eten