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κακότης?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: kakotēs

Principal Part: κακότης κακότες

Structure: κακοτη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: κακός

Sense

  1. badness
  2. baseness, weakness, cowardice
  3. badness, wickedness, by malice prepense
  4. evil condition, distress, misery

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐχθρὸς μὲν γὰρ τοῖσι μετέσσεται, οὕς κεν ἵκηται χρημοσύνῃ τ εἴκων καὶ στυγερῇ πενίῃ, αἰσχύνει δὲ γένος, κατὰ δ ἀγλαὸν εἶδος ἐλέγχει, πᾶσα δ ἀτιμίη καὶ κακότης ἕπεται. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 144:5)
  • πολλὴ δέ τις καὶ τῶν οὔρων κακότης ἦν τῶν ἀπιόντων. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 222)
  • ἐχθρὸς μὲν γὰρ τοῖσι μετέσσεται, οὕς κεν ἵκηται χρησμοσύνῃ τ εἴκων καὶ στυγερῇ πενίῃ, αἰσχύνει τε γένος, κατὰ δ ἀγλαὸν εἶδος ἐλέγχει, πᾶσα δ ἀτιμίη καὶ κακότης ἕπεται. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 130)
  • πᾶσα γὰρ ἐκ τούτων, Κύρνε, πέλει κακότης. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389694)
  • σὺ δὲ ταῦτα φύλαξαι, μηδέ σε νικήσῃ παῖδ ἀδαῆ κακότης. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389778)

Synonyms

  1. badness

  2. badness

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

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