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κάκοσμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάκοσμος κάκοσμον

Structure: κακοσμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)smh/

Sense

  1. ill-smelling

Examples

  • μιαρὸν τὸ χρῆμα καὶ κάκοσμον καὶ βορόν· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 1:28)
  • ἄπιστον εἶπασ μῦθον ὦ πάτερ πάτερ, ὅπωσ κάκοσμον ζῷον ἦλθεν ἐσ θεούσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, iambics7)
  • λέγει γοῦν ὅδ’ ἐστὶν ὅσ ποτ’ ἀμφ’ ἐμοὶ βέλοσ γελωτοποιόν, τὴν κάκοσμον οὐράνην, ἔρριψεν οὐδ’ ἥμαρτε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 303)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀμφὶ θυμῷ τὴν κάκοσμον οὐράνην ἔρριψεν οὐδ’ ἥμαρτε; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 30 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. ill-smelling

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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