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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

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative κάκοσμος κάκοσμον
Genitive κακόσμου κακόσμου
Dative κακόσμῳ κακόσμῳ
Accusative κάκοσμον κάκοσμον
Vocative κάκοσμε κάκοσμον
DualN/A/V κακόσμω κακόσμω
G/D κακόσμοιν κακόσμοιν
PluralNominative κάκοσμοι κάκοσμα
Genitive κακόσμων κακόσμων
Dative κακόσμοις κακόσμοις
Accusative κακόσμους κάκοσμα
Vocative κάκοσμοι κάκοσμα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κάκοσμος κακόσμου κακοσμότερος κακοσμοτέρου κακοσμότατος κακοσμοτάτου
Adverb κακόσμως κακοσμότερον κακοσμότατα

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

  • 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)
  • Ἡ ὑστέρη τῇσι γυναιξὶ ὑμένων ἀποτάσιασ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα κατὰ λαγόνασ ἴσχει, ἀτὰρ ἠδὲ ζῳού πάθη ἐν ὀσφρήσι · ἰέται γὰρ ἐπὶ τοῖσι εὐώδεσι πρὸσ ἡδονὴν, καὶ τὰ κάκοσμα καὶ ἀτερπέα ὑπὸ ἀχθηδόνοσ φεύγει. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 302)

Synonyms

  1. ill-smelling

Similar forms

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

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