κακία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κᾰκός (kakós, “bad, evil”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

Noun

κᾰκῐ́ᾱ • (kakíā) f (genitive κᾰκῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. lack of quality
2. evil, wickedness, vice, depravity
3. cowardice
4. dishonour, shame
5. misfortune

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: κακία (kakía)
• Mariupol Greek: каки́я (kakíja)

References

• “κακία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κακία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κακία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2549 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • badness idem, page 59.
  • baseness idem, page 64.
  • corruption idem, page 176.
  • cowardice idem, page 181.
  • demoralisation idem, page 210.
  • depravity idem, page 212.
  • evil idem, page 286.
  • immorality idem, page 418.
  • meanness idem, page 520.
  • profligacy idem, page 653.
  • sordidness idem, page 794.
  • vice idem, page 950.
  • vileness idem, page 952.
  • wickedness idem, page 978.
  • wrong idem, page 994.
• κακία - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κακία (kakía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈci.a/

Noun

κακία • (kakía) f (plural κακίες)

1. evil
2. malice, rancour
3. grudge

Declension

Further reading

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