...So calling wifi Aethernet would be hilarious, but I think we can maybe agree that would not have been a great idea for the sake of actually being able to talk about them out loud.

Tell that to the person who said "trie" should be pronounced "tree"!

Synonyms

So it is, I didn't know that. In that case the other poster point stands, I'm guessing they used the word to indicate the magic of the network?