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κάλλος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλλος κάλλεος

Structure: καλλο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kalo/s

Sense

  1. beauty
  2. a beautiful person or thing

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

  • Νεφθαλεὶμ στέλεχοσ ἀνειμένον, ἐπιδιδοὺσ ἐν τῷ γεννήματι κάλλοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:21)
  • πρωτότοκοσ ταύρου τὸ κάλλοσ αὐτοῦ, κέρατα μονοκέρωτοσ τὰ κέρατα αὐτοῦ. ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἔθνη κερατιεῖ ἅμα ἕωσ ἀπ̓ ἄκρου γῆσ. αὗται μυριάδεσ Ἐφραί̈μ, καὶ αὗται χιλιάδεσ Μανασσῆ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 33:17)
  • τὸ σανδάλιον αὐτῆσ ἥρπασεν ὀφθαλμὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ κάλλοσ αὐτῆσ ᾐχμαλώτισε ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ, διῆλθεν ὁ ἀκινάκησ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 16:9)
  • εἰσαγαγεῖν τὴν βασίλισσαν πρὸσ αὐτόν, βασιλεύειν αὐτὴν καὶ περιθεῖναι αὐτῇ τὸ διάδημα καὶ δεῖξαι τοῖσ ἄρχουσι καὶ τοῖσ ἔθνεσι τὸ κάλλοσ αὐτῆσ, ὅτι καλὴ ἦν. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 1:28)
  • καὶ ἐστέναξαν ἄρχοντεσ καὶ πρεσβύτεροι, παρθένοι καὶ νεανίσκοι ἠσθένησαν, καὶ τὸ κάλλοσ τῶν γυναικῶν ἠλλοιώθη. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 1:26)

Synonyms

  1. beauty

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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