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κακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακός κακή κακόν

Structure: κακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. As a measure of quality: bad, worthless, useless
  2. As a measure of appearance: ugly, hideous
  3. Of circumstances: injurious, wretched, unhappy
  4. As a measure of character: low, mean, vile, evil

Declension

First/Second 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

  • νῦν δὲ οὐ κακὼσ ἄνδρασ δουλῶται· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. i'. EPIMENIDHS 5:2)
  • θεοὺσ οὐ κακολογήσεισ καὶ ἄρχοντα τοῦ λαοῦ σου οὐ κακῶσ ἐρεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 22:28)
  • οὐ κακῶσ ἐρεῖσ κωφόν, καὶ ἀπέναντι τυφλοῦ οὐ προσθήσεισ σκάνδαλον, καὶ φοβηθήσῃ Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου. ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 19:14)
  • ἄνθρωποσ ἄνθρωποσ, ὃσ ἂν κακῶσ εἴπῃ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ ἢ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ, θανάτῳ θανατούσθω. πατέρα αὐτοῦ ἢ μητέρα αὐτοῦ κακῶσ εἶπεν̣ ἔνοχοσ ἔσται. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 20:9)
  • οὕτω σύντριψον τὴν παρεμβολὴν ταύτην ἐνώπιον ἡμῶν σήμερον, καὶ γνώτωσαν οἱ ἐπίλοιποι, ὅτι κακῶσ ἐλάλησαν ἐπὶ τὰ ἅγιά σου, καὶ κρῖνον αὐτὸν κατὰ τὴν κακίαν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 7:42)

Synonyms

  1. Of circumstances

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