The corpus record — Latin

gehenna

gehenna · f

hellish

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
De Paenitentia 3 · 7.36/10k
Ad Uxorem 2 · 4.81/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 10 · 4.41/10k
De Scorpiace 3 · 3.77/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
Adversus Marcionem 8 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

gĕhenna — Lewis & Short

gĕhenna, ae, f., = ge/enna (Hebrew, Ge-Hinnom, Ge-Ben-Hinnom), a valley near Jerusalem where children were offered to Moloch;

I hence, transf., hell, Vulg. Matt. 5, 22 sq.; 10, 28; 18, 9 al.; Tert. Apol. 47; Prud. Cath. 6, 111; 11, 112; Aus. Ephem. ap. Orat. 56 et saep.—

II Deriv. gĕhen-nālis, e, hellish, of hell: incendium, Cassiod. Amic. 22, § 32: poenae, id. ib. 24, § 4.

In the wild

gehennae Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 2.7
gehennam Tertullian, De Paenitentia 12
gehennae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.29
gehennae Pseudo-Tertullian, Ad Uxorem 1.6
gehennam Tertullian, De Scorpiace 12
gehennae Tertullian, De Pudicitia 6

6 of 45 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.