ἐκεῖνος

See also: εκείνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • κεῖνος (keînos)Epic, Ionic
  • κῆνος (kênos)Aeolic
  • κῆνος, τῆνος (kênos, tênos)Doric
  • ἐκεινοσί (ekeinosí)emphatic
  • ἐκεινοσίν (ekeinosín)emphatic with movable nu

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ékeyenos, from ἐ- (e-, augment) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁é) + *ḱe (deictic particle) + Proto-Indo-European *h₁enos (that) (compare ἔνη (énē)).[1] Middle part also in Latin ce-dō, cis, hi-c(e), last part also in Latin enim, nam, etc. Possibly a cognate of Old Norse hinn (this) (from Proto-Norse *ᚺᛁᚾᚨᛉ (*hinaʀ /⁠*hīnaʀ⁠/)).

Pronunciation

 

Pronoun

ἐκεῖνος • (ekeînos) (Epic, Attic, Koine)

  1. (demonstrative) that
    1. (of place, to indicate something farther from the speaker) there
    2. (of time, to indicate something farther in the past)
      1. (to indicate something previously mentioned)
      2. (in contrast to οὗτος (hoûtos) the former)
    3. (of someone or something famous or infamous)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: εκείνος (ekeínos)
  • Italiot Greek: cino

See also

Ancient Greek personal pronouns
first second third
singular ἐγώ (egṓ) σῠ́ (sŭ́) αὐτός (autós),
οὗ (hoû),
ὅς (hós),
(ho),
οὗτος (hoûtos),
ὅδε (hóde),
ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos)
dual νώ (nṓ) σφώ (sphṓ) αὐτώ (autṓ),
σφωέ (sphōé),
(hṓ),
τώ (tṓ),
τούτω (toútō),
τώδε (tṓde),
ἐκείνω (ekeínō)
plural ἡμεῖς (hēmeîs) ῡ̔μεῖς (hūmeîs) αὐτοί (autoí),
σφεῖς (spheîs),
οἵ (hoí),
οἱ (hoi),
οὗτοι (hoûtoi),
οἵδε (hoíde),
ἐκεῖνοι (ekeînoi)


References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐκεῖνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397

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