Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κεῖθεν ‎(keîthen) Poetic
• κηνόθεν ‎(kēnóthen) Aeolic
• τηνῶθεν ‎(tēnôthen) Doric

Adverb

ἐκεῖθεν • ‎(ekeîthen)

1. from that place, thence
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 490
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 632
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 619.B
   • 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 6.181.B
   1. 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
   2. to that place, thither
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1227
2. thence, from that place
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 224
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 48
3. (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)

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• “G1564”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.