Ethos (plurals: ethe (ἤθη), ethea (ἤθεα))'s a Greek word originally meaning "accustomed place" (as in "the habitat of horses", Il. 6.511), "custom, habit", equivalent to Latin mores. Ethos forms the root of ethikos, meaning "moral, showing moral character". To the Greeks ancient and modern, the meaning's simply "the state of being", the inner source, the soul, the mind, and the original essence, that shapes and forms a person or animal. Late Latin borrowed… (More on Ethos)