Αἰνόθεν αἰνῶς

horror from horror

Translated by Catharine Roth26 Jan 2003Vetting: high7 revisions

13 words

[Meaning something happening] very terribly; from [something] terrible; for ai)no/qen [is] genitive case.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Αἰνόθεν αἰνῶς· λίαν δεινῶς· ἐκ δεινοῦ· τὸ γὰρ αἰνόθεν γενική.

Betacode

*ai)no/qen ai)nw=s: li/an deinw=s: e)k deinou=: to\ ga\r ai)no/qen genikh/.

The headword phrase is quoted from Homer, Iliad 7.97 (web address 1); cf. the scholia there, and Hesychius s.v.
The suffix -qen has an ablative sense (place from which), a function which is served by the genitive in Greek. See Smyth §342 (web address 2).