Included with:
κᾰκός, ή, όν,
A bad:
A.I of persons,
A.I.1 of appearance,
ugly, εἶδος μὲν ἔην κακός [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.I.2 of birth,
ill-born, mean, γένος ἐστὲ διοτρεφέων βασιλήων.., ἐπεὶ οὔ κε κακοὶ τοιούσδε τέκοιεν [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.I.3 of courage,
craven, base, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ἕκτωρ σε κ. καὶ ἀνάλκιδα φήσει [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐδαμῶν κακίονες[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
A.I.4 bad of his kind, i. e.
worthless, sorry, unskilled, ἡνίοχοι [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; [τοξότης] ἢ κ. ἢ ἀγαθός[
Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. ἀλήτης a
bad beggar,[
Refs 4th c.BC+]; κυβερνήτης, ναύτης, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] I am not
bad in all things, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: with
infinitive, κ. μανθάνειν [
Refs]; [νῆσος] φυτεύεσθαι κακή [
Refs]; compare 11.
A.I.5 in moral sense,
base, evil, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to Χρηστός, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
A.I.6 wretched, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
A.II of things,
evil, pernicious, frequently in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; Χόλος, ἔρις, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; πόλεμος, ἔπος, ἔργα, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦμαρ, ἄνεμος, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; of omens and the like,
unlucky, ὄρνις, ὄναρ, σῆμα, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; of words,
abusive, foul, κ. λόγοι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ποιμήν, i.e. the storm, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]: Astrology texts,
unlucky, τόποι [
Refs 4th c.AD+]; κ. τύχη, name for the sixth region, [
Refs 4th c.AD+]
B κακόν, τό, and κακά, τά, as
substantive,
evil, ill, δίδου δ᾽ ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; so κ. ἄμαχον, ἄπρηκτα, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔκπαγλον, ἄφερτον, ἀμήχανον, etc., [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κακὸν ἥκει τινί there's
trouble in store for some one, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; δυοῖν ἀποκρίνας κακοῖν the least of two
evils, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κακῶν Ἰλιάς, see at Ἰλιά; κακόν τι ῥέξαι τινά to do
harm or
ill to any one, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; κακὰ φέρειν, τεύχειν τινί, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; κακόν τι (or κακὰ) ποιεῖν τινα (see. δράω, ποιέω, ἐργάζομαι); κακὸν πάσχειν ὑπό τινος to suffer
evil from one, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
B.2 κακά, τά,
evil words, reproaches, πολλά τε καὶ κακὰ λέγειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
B.3 Philos., κακόν, τό,
Evil, [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]
B.4 of a person,
pest, nuisance, τουτὶ παρέξει τὸ κ. ἡμῖν πράγματα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, comically, ὅσον συνείλεκται κακὸν ὀρνέων what a
devil of a lot of birds, [
Refs]
C degrees of Comparison:
C.1 regular
comparative in
Epic dialect, κακώτερος [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: also in late Prose, [
Refs 4th c.AD+]: irregular κακίων, ον [with ῐ], [
Refs 8th c.BC+], with ῑ in Trag., except [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
C.2 superlative κάκιστος [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
D adverb κακῶς
ill, ἢ εὖ ἦε κακῶς [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; κακῶς ποιεῖν τινα to treat one
ill; κακῶς ποιεῖν τι to hurt, damage a thing; κακῶς ποιεῖν τινά τι to do one any evil or harm; κ. πράσσειν to fare
ill, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of illness, [
NT+4th c.BC+]; Χρῆν Κανδαύλῃ γενέσθαι κ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; with play on two senses, ὡς κ. ἔχει ἅπας ἰατρός, ἂν κ. μηδεὶς ἔχῃ [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; κ. ἐρεῖν τινά, λέγειν τὴν πόλιν, [
Refs 6th c.BC+]; κ. εἰδότες, =ἀγνοοῦντες, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κακῶς ἐκπέφευγα I have
barely escaped, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]:
comparative κάκιον [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
superlative κάκιστα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
D.2 adverb and
adjective frequently coupled in Trag.,
Attic dialect, etc., κακὸν κακῶς νιν.. ἐκτρῖψαι βίον [
NT+5th c.BC+]; in reversed order, ὥσπερ ἀξία κακῶς κακὴ θανεῖται [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; with intervening words, κακῶς.. ἀπόλλυσθαι κακούς [
Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Perh.
cognate with Avest.
kasu-,
comparative kasyah-,
superlative kasišta- 'small', Lithuanian
nukašëti 'grow feeble, thin', [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
hager.)
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