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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

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

  • ἐνταῦθα πηγαί εἰσι τρεῖσ καλλίστου καὶ διειδεστάτου ὕδατοσ, ἡ μὲν Σατύρων,^ ἡ δὲ Πανόσ, ἡ δὲ Σιληνοῦ. (Lucian, (no name) 6:5)
  • λάβετε οὖν αὐτοὶ τὸν ταῦρον καὶ ἀνάθετε καὶ εὔξασθε ὑπέρ τε τῆσ Ἀκράγαντοσ καὶ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ Φαλάριδοσ, καὶ μήτε ἡμᾶσ ἀπράκτουσ ἀποπέμψητε μήτε ἐκεῖνον ὑβρίσητε μήτε τὸν θεὸν ἀποστερήσητε καλλίστου τε ἅμα καὶ δικαιοτάτου ἀναθήματοσ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 14:3)
  • τί ποτε ὁ Πίνδαρόσ φησι περὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπαινῶν ‐ ἀνάμνησον γάρ με, εἴπερ οἶσθα ‐ ὁπότε ὕδωρ ἄριστον εἰπὼν εἶτα τὸ χρυσίον θαυμάζει, εὖ ποιῶν, ἐν ἀρχῇ εὐθὺσ τοῦ καλλίστου τῶν ᾀσμάτων ἁπάντων; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 7:2)
  • τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, ὅτι ἐν Ἁλικαρνασσῷ μνῆμα παμμέγεθεσ ἔχω ἐπικείμενον, ἡλίκον οὐκ ἄλλοσ νεκρόσ, ἀλλ̓ οὐδὲ οὕτωσ ἐσ κάλλοσ ἐξησκημένον, ἵππων καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἐσ τὸ ἀκριβέστατον εἰκασμένων λίθου τοῦ καλλίστου, οἱο͂ν οὐδὲ νεὼν εὑρ́οι τισ ἂν ῥᾳδίωσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 1:4)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ οὐκ αὐτὸ μόνον καλοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ καλλίστου δεόμεθα, καὶ ἢν μὴ τοῦτο εὑρ́ωμεν, οὐδὲν ἡμῖν πλέον πεπρᾶχθαι ἡγησόμεθα· (Lucian, 94:5)

Synonyms

  1. beautiful

  2. good

  3. good

Related

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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