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αἰθέρος (aitheros)

αἰθέρος is an Ancient Greek form of αἰθήρ, meaning “upper air, sky”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1231: πρὸς γάρ οἱ διχόμηνις ἀπʼ αἰθέρος αὐγάζουσα

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 1.11: πύκνα δίννεντε πτέρʼ ἀπʼ ὀρράνω αἴθερος

Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2·10: … εῶν, συνωνυμίαις τισὶ τὰς δοξοποιίας διελέγχουσα. Αὐτίκα γοῦν εἰσὶν οἳ τρεῖς τοὺς Ζῆνας ἀναγράφουσιν, τὸν μὲν Αἰθέρος ἐν ʼΛρκαδίᾳ, τὼ δὲ λοιπὼ τοῦ Κρόνου παῖδε, τούτοιν τὸν μὲν ἐν Κρήτῃ, θάτερον δὲ ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ πάλιν. εἰσὶ δὲ οἳ …

All forms of αἰθήρ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.