Ethe

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈiːθiː/

From the Ancient Greek ἤθη, the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος.

Noun

plural

1. Plural of ethos
• 1892: Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, p72And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe of ethos, before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.
• 1942: International Universities Press, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, p85The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.
• 2003: Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, p76…it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

See eath.

Full definition of ethe

Adjective

1. (obsolete) easy
• 1579, Edmund Spenser, "The Shepheardes Calender", The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown (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