gehenna

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.

• Gehenna, džehenna

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛɦɛna]

gehenna f

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

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

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

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

First-declension noun, with locative.

• gehennālis

• “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

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈxɛn.na/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

gehenna f

1. (figuratively) ordeal

   Synonym: męka

2. (archaic) hell

   Synonym: piekło

• gehenna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gehenna in Polish dictionaries at PWN