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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

  • καὶ συναγαγέτωσαν πάντα τὰ βρώματα τῶν ἑπτὰ ἐτῶν τῶν ἐρχομένων τῶν καλῶν τούτων, καὶ συναχθήτω ὁ σῖτοσ ὑπὸ χεῖρα Φαραώ, βρώματα ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσι φυλαχθήτω. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 41:35)
  • ἐξελθόντων δὲ αὐτῶν τὴν πόλιν, οὐκ ἀπέσχον μακράν, καὶ Ἰωσὴφ εἶπε τῷ ἐπὶ τῆσ οἰκίασ αὐτοῦ. ἀναστὰσ ἐπιδίωξον ὀπίσω τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ καταλήψῃ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἐρεῖσ αὐτοῖσ. τί ὅτι ἀνταπεδώκατε πονηρὰ ἀντὶ καλῶν̣ ἱνατί ἐκλέψατέ μου τὸ κόνδυ τὸ ἀργυροῦν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:4)
  • οὐ διέπεσεν ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ρημάτων τῶν καλῶν, ὧν ἐλάλησε Κύριοσ τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραήλ. πάντα παρεγένετο. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 21:49)
  • καὶ προσεκαλέσατο Δαυὶδ τὸν λαὸν καὶ τῷ Ἀβεννὴρ ἐλάλησε λέγων. οὐκ ἀποκριθήσῃ Ἀβεννήρ̣ καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Ἀβεννὴρ καὶ εἶπε. τίσ εἶ σὺ ὁ καλῶν με̣ (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 26:14)
  • ὁ ἀριθμῶν πλήθη ἄστρων, καὶ πᾶσιν αὐτοῖσ ὀνόματα καλῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 146:4)

Synonyms

  1. beautiful

  2. good

  3. good

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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