gehenna

See also: Gehenna

English

Noun

gehenna (plural gehennas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna.
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 59:

     When I next took an interest in things I found myself lying in the road. The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.

Czech

Alternative forms

• Gehenna, džehenna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛɦɛna]

Noun

gehenna f

1. gehenna (one of various hells in Abrahamic religions)

Declension

Declension of gehenna (hard feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	gehenna	gehenny
genitive	gehenny	gehenen
dative	gehenně	gehennám
accusative	gehennu	gehenny
vocative	gehenno	gehenny
locative	gehenně	gehennách
instrumental	gehennou	gehennami

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek γέεννᾰ (géennă), from the Biblical Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (Ge'henom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡeˈ(ɦ)ɛn.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeˈɛn.na]

Noun

gehenna f (genitive gehennae); first declension

1. the Hinnom Valley (a valley near Jerusalem where children were immolated for Moloch)
2. (transferred sense) Gehenna, hell
   • AD 382–4, Biblia Vulgata, Matth. 5:22:

     Ego autem dico vobis quia omnis qui irascitur fratri suo reus erit iudicio qui autem dixerit fratri suo racha reus erit concilio qui autem dixerit fatue reus erit gehennae ignis.

     But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. ― World English Bible translation

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative.

	singular	plural
nominative	gehenna	gehennae
genitive	gehennae	gehennārum
dative	gehennae	gehennīs
accusative	gehennam	gehennās
ablative	gehennā	gehennīs
vocative	gehenna	gehennae
locative	gehennae	gehennīs

Derived terms

• gehennālis

References

• “gehenna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gehenna”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• gehenna in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Biblical Hebrew גֵּיא בֶן הִנֹּם

Biblical Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (gēhinnṓm)bor.

Ancient Greek γέεννᾰ (géennă)der.

Ecclesiastical Latin gehennalbor.

Polish gehenna

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin gehenna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈxɛn.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnna
• Syllabification: ge‧hen‧na

Noun

gehenna f

1. (figuratively) ordeal

   Synonym: męka

2. (archaic) hell

   Synonym: piekło

Declension

Declension of gehenna

	singular	plural
nominative	gehenna	gehenny
genitive	gehenny	gehenn
dative	gehennie	gehennom
accusative	gehennę	gehenny
instrumental	gehenną	gehennami
locative	gehennie	gehennach
vocative	gehenno	gehenny

Related terms

proper nouns

• Gehenna

Further reading

• “gehenna”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “gehenna”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)