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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
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative καλός καλή καλόν
Genitive καλοῦ καλῆς καλοῦ
Dative καλῷ καλῇ καλῷ
Accusative καλόν καλήν καλόν
Vocative καλέ καλή καλόν
DualN/A/V καλώ καλᾱ́ καλώ
G/D καλοῖν καλαῖν καλοῖν
PluralNominative καλοί καλαί καλά
Genitive καλῶν καλῶν καλῶν
Dative καλοῖς καλαῖς καλοῖς
Accusative καλούς καλᾱ́ς καλά
Vocative καλοί καλαί καλά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective καλός καλοῦ καλλίων καλλιονός καλλίστος καλλιστοῦ
Adverb καλώς καλλίον καλλίστα

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

  • ἐγένετο δέ, ἡνίκα εἰσῆλθεν Ἅβραμ εἰσ Αἴγυπτον, ἰδόντεσ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, ὅτι καλὴ ἦν σφόδρα, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 12:14)
  • ἡ δὲ παρθένοσ ἦν καλὴ τῇ ὄψει σφόδρα. παρθένοσ ἦν, ἀνὴρ οὐκ ἔγνω αὐτήν. καταβᾶσα δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν πηγὴν ἔπλησε τὴν ὑδρίαν αὐτῆσ καὶ ἀνέβη. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 24:16)
  • οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ Λείασ ἀσθενεῖσ, Ραχὴλ δὲ ἦν καλὴ τῷ εἴδει καὶ ὡραία τῇ ὄψει σφόδρα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 29:17)
  • καὶ ἰδὼν τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ὅτι καλή, καὶ τὴν γῆν ὅτι πίων, ὑπέθηκε τὸν ὦμον αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὸ πονεῖν καὶ ἐγενήθη ἀνὴρ γεωργόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:15)
  • καὶ τίσ ἡ γῆ, εἰσ ἣν οὗτοι ἐγκάθηνται ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ, εἰ καλή ἐστιν ἢ πονηρά. καὶ τίνεσ αἱ πόλεισ, ἃσ οὗτοι κατοικοῦσιν ἐν αὐταῖσ, εἰ ἐν τειχήρεσιν ἢ ἐν ἀτειχίστοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 13:20)

Synonyms

  1. beautiful

  2. good

  3. good

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