Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

καλός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλός καλή καλόν

Structure: καλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. beautiful, lovely
  2. good, quality, useful
  3. good, right, moral, virtuous, noble

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

  • εἰ δ’ ἐθέλεισ, ὦ καλέ, καὶ τάδε μου ἄκουσον. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 13:2)
  • αὖθισ ὁρῶ γελῶντά σε, ὦ καλὲ Κρόνιε, τὴν καταστροφὴν τοῦ δράματοσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 17:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἔγωγε κἀκεῖνα καὶ εἲ τιν’ ^ ἄλλα ἐκ τοῦ λόγου συντιθεὶσ εὑρίσκω προσόντα ταῖσ τοιαύταισ συνουσίαισ, οὐκ ὀκνήσω σοι πάντα, ὦ καλὲ Τιμόκλεισ, διεξελθεῖν· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 2:2)
  • τοῦτό σοι τέλοσ, ὦ καλὲ Φίλων, ἐγένετο τοῦ συμποσίου, ἢ ἄμεινον τὸ τραγικὸν ἐκεῖνο ἐπειπεῖν, πολλαὶ μορφαὶ τῶν δαιμονίων, πολλὰ δ’ ἀέλπτωσ κραίνουσι θεοί, καὶ τὰ δοκηθέντ’ οὐκ ἐτελέσθη· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 48:1)
  • ταῦτα πῶσ οὐ γέλωσ ἐστίν, ὦ καλὲ Τιμόκλεισ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 42:8)
  • Πάλαι σκοπῶ πρὸσ ἐμαυτόν, ω καλε Σαβῖνε, ἅτινά σοι εἰκὸσ ἐπελθεῖν εἰπεῖν ἀναγνόντι ἡμῶν τὸ περὶ τῶν ἐπὶ μισθῷ συνόντων βιβλίον· (Lucian, Apologia 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. beautiful

  2. good

  3. good

Related

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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