κάλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κᾰλός (kalós, “good, beautiful, noble”).

Pronunciation

Noun

κᾰ́λλος • (kállos) n (genitive κᾰ́λλεος or κάλλους); third declension

1. beauty
2. nobility
3. a beautiful person or thing

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: κάλλος (kállos)
• Mariupol Greek: кало́с (kalós)

References

• “κάλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κάλλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κάλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κάλλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beauty idem, page 68.
  • comeliness idem, page 145.
  • elegance idem, page 265.
  • fineness idem, page 321.
  • grace idem, page 368.
  • loveliness idem, page 502.
  • spruceness idem, page 806.
• κάλλος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.los/

Noun

κάλλος • (kállos) n (plural κάλλη)

1. beauty

Declension

Related terms

• καλλιγραφία f (kalligrafía, “calligraphy”)

Further reading

• κάλλος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.