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Ancient Greek
Etymology
κακός (kakós) + -της (-tēs)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.kó.tɛːs/ → /kaˈko.tis/ → /kaˈko.tis/
Noun
κᾰκότης • (kakótēs) f (genitive κᾰκότητος); third declension
- evil, badness, wickedness
- cowardice
Declension
Further reading
- “κακότης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κακότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κακότης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κακότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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.
- cowardice idem, page 181.
- depravity idem, page 212.
- evil idem, page 286.
- immorality idem, page 418.
- meanness idem, page 520.
- sordidness idem, page 794.
- vice idem, page 950.
- wickedness idem, page 978.