# ἐκεῖθεν
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* κεῖθεν (keîthen) — Poetic
* κηνόθεν (kēnóthen) — Aeolic
* τηνῶθεν (tēnôthen) — Doric

### Etymology

From ἐκεῖ (ekeî, “yonder”) +‎ -θεν (-then, “from”). This is the expected distal source demonstrative reflex.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /e.kêː.tʰen/ → /eˈci.θen/ → /eˈci.θen/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /e.kêː.tʰen/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /eˈki.tʰen/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /eˈci.θen/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /eˈci.θen/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /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

| type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
| basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
| dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | | | | ὁπότερος | 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 | ἐνθάδε | 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, δεῦρο | 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 (2006–2024)
* 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.