1. κακός · kakos — Beekes
bad, awful, worthless
The corpus record
κακός
kakos
bad, awful, worthless
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Accusation of Calumny 18 · 174.08/10k
- For Callias 3 · 107.91/10k
- Lysis 74 · 106.47/10k
- Persians 51 · 100.18/10k
- Hecuba 66 · 92.15/10k
- Hipparchus 19 · 84.29/10k
- Proverbia 91 · 81.92/10k
- Orestes 76 · 77.5/10k
- Heracles 60 · 76.66/10k
- Ajax 59 · 75.03/10k
- Works and Days 43 · 74.6/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 51 · 72.49/10k
Densest 12 of 269 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. κακός · kakos — Chantraine
«mauvais, de mauvaise qualité », etc
3. κακός · kakos — Frisk
“schlecht, häßlich, böse, schlimm, feig’ (seit Il
4. κακός · kakos — Frisk
Myk
5. κᾰκός · kakos — LSJ
bad, ugly, ill-born, mean
Attestations
- κακήν · kakēn Iliad 1.10
- κακῶς · kakōs Iliad 1.25
- κακῶν · kakōn Iliad 1.106
- κακοῖο · kakoio Iliad 1.284
- κακῶς · kakōs Iliad 1.379
- κακὸν · kakon Iliad 1.382
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Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan pp. 666-667; entry #2827 Review: Under source audit
- scan p. 496; entry #3530 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 790-791; entry #2708 Review: Under source audit
The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.
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