ἐκεῖθεν
See also: εκείθεν
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κεῖθεν (keîthen) – Poetic
- κηνόθεν (kēnóthen) – Aeolic
- τηνῶθεν (tēnôthen) – Doric
Etymology
From ἐκεῖ (ekeî, “there”) + -θεν (-then).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.kêː.tʰen/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈki.tʰen/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈci.θen/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈci.θen/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈci.θen/
Adverb
ἐκεῖθεν • (ekeîthen)
- from that place, thence
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 490
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 632
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 619B
- 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 6.181B
- there
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.62
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 505
- 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1411
- to that place, thither
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1227
- thence, from that place
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 224
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 48
- (of time) thereafter, next
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.234
- 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 54.25
Antonyms
- ἐντεῦθεν (enteûthen, “hence”)
Descendants
- Greek: εκείθεν (ekeíthen)
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
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basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | ὁπότερος | ||||||
quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος | |
quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | |||
manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως | |
method, path, place | πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | ἄλλῃ | |
place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι | |
source | πόθεν | ποθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε | |
exact time | πηνίκα | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |||
duration of time | τέως | ἕως | |||||||
size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | ||
repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | ||||
multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | |||||||
order | πόστος | ποστός | ὁπόστος | ||||||
† Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. |
Further reading
- “ἐκεῖθεν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐκεῖθεν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐκεῖθεν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐκεῖθεν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1564 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- thence idem, page 865.
- yonder idem, page 997.