In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
ether, aether
(noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
Aether
(noun) personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
aether (countable and uncountable, plural aethers)
Alternative spelling of ether
• Heater, eather, hearte, heater, hereat, reheat
Aether
(Greek god) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.
• Heater, eather, hearte, heater, hereat, reheat
Source: Wiktionary
Æ"ther, n.
Definition: See Ether.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.