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κακίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακίᾱ κακίας

Structure: κακι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: kako/s

Sense

  1. lack of quality
  2. evil, wickedness, vice, depravity
  3. cowardice
  4. dishonour, shame
  5. misfortune

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἰδὼν δὲ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ, ὅτι ἐπληθύνθησαν αἱ κακίαι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ πᾶσ τισ διανοεῖται ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἐπιμελῶσ ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ πάσασ τὰσ ἡμέρασ, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 6:5)
  • πᾶσαι αἱ κακίαι αὐτῶν ἐν Γαλγάλ, ὅτι ἐκεῖ ἐμίσησα αὐτούσ. διὰ τὰσ κακίασ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων αὐτῶν ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου μου ἐκβαλῶ αὐτούσ, οὐ μὴ προσθήσω τοῦ ἀγαπῆσαι αὐτούσ. πάντεσ οἱ ἄρχοντεσ αὐτῶν ἀπειθοῦντεσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 9:15)
  • καὶ τῶν μὲν καλῶν ἡγοῦνται αἱ ἀρεταί, τῶν δ’ αἰσχρῶν αἱ κακίαι. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 2:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ εἴληπται ἡ διαλογὴ τῶν ἕξεων καθ’ ἕκαστα τὰ πάθη, καὶ αἱ ὑπερβολαὶ καὶ ἐλλείψεισ, καὶ τῶν ἐναντίων ἕξεων, καθ’ ἃσ ἔχουσι κατὰ τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον τίσ δ’ ὁ ὀρθὸσ λόγοσ, καὶ πρὸσ τίνα δεῖ ὁρ́ον ἀποβλέποντασ λέγειν τὸ μέσον, ὕστερον ἐπισκεπτέον, φανερὸν ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ἠθικαὶ ἀρεταὶ καὶ κακίαι περὶ ἡδονῶν καὶ λυπῶν ὑπερβολὰσ καὶ ἐλλείψεισ εἰσί, καὶ ἡδοναὶ καὶ λῦπαι ἀπὸ τῶν εἰρημένων ἕξεων καὶ παθημάτων γίνονται. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 93:1)
  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν μεσότητέσ εἰσί τε ἐν ταῖσ ἀρεταῖσ, καὶ αὗται προαιρετικαί, καὶ αἱ ἐναντίαι κακίαι, καὶ τίνεσ εἰσὶν αὗται, καθόλου εἴρηται· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. lack of quality

  2. evil

  3. cowardice

  4. dishonour

  5. misfortune

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