ἐκεῖ
See also: εκεί
Ancient GreekEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Back-formation from ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos).
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.kêː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈki/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈci/
AdverbEdit
ἐκεῖ • (ekeî)
- demonstrative adverb there, in that place
- (in Tragic, euphemistic), "in Hades", i.e. dead.
- (with verbs of motion) thither
- (rarely) then, at that time
SynonymsEdit
- ἔνθα (éntha)
AntonymsEdit
- ἐνταῦθα (entaûtha, “here”)
Derived termsEdit
- ἐκεῖσε (ekeîse, “thither, there”)
- ἐκεῖθεν (ekeîthen, “thence, from there”)
- τἀκεῖ (takeî, “what happens there”)
DescendantsEdit
- Greek: εκεί (ekeí)
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ἐκεῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐκεῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐκεῖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐκεῖ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1563 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.