ethe

easy

Adjective

  1. easy
    • Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath. - 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in The Poetical Works of...

Origin

See eath.

Forms

more ethe most ethe

Noun

  1. plural of ethos
    • 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...
    • The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios. - 1942, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, International Universities Press, page 85:
    • […] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe. - 2003, Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, page 76:

Origin

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