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hypaethral

adjective /hɪˈpiːθɹəl/

  1. Open-air, outdoor, exposed to the sky.

    There was a dignity in their hypaethral presence kin to summer’s first morning of taurine light in the pepper trees of Uruguay.

Where it comes from

From Latin hypaethrus, from Ancient Greek ὕπαιθρος (húpaithros), from ὑπό (hupó) + αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air, ether”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hypaethral (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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