Word from Latin for "pure air" (5)

I believe the answer is:

ether

(Other definitions for ether that I've seen before include "Former anaesthetic" , "Highly flammable liquid once used as an anaesthetic" , "Some were put out by this" , "Anaesthetic is, strangely, there" , "number" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday.

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