κάλλος

See also: κάλος and καλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kál.los/ → /ˈkal.los/ → /ˈka.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kál.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.los/

Noun

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

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

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κᾰ́λλος; τοῦ κᾰ́λλους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰ́λλος tò kállos	τὼ κᾰ́λλει tṑ kállei	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́λλη tà kállē
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰ́λλους toû kállous	τοῖν κᾰλλοῖν toîn kalloîn	τῶν κᾰλλῶν tôn kallôn
Dative	τῷ κᾰ́λλει tôi kállei	τοῖν κᾰλλοῖν toîn kalloîn	τοῖς κᾰ́λλεσῐ / κᾰ́λλεσῐν toîs kállesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κᾰ́λλος tò kállos	τὼ κᾰ́λλει tṑ kállei	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́λλη tà kállē
Vocative	κᾰ́λλος kállos	κᾰ́λλει kállei	κᾰ́λλη kállē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Καλλίας (Kallías)
• Καλλικλῆς (Kalliklês)
• Κᾰλλῐκρᾰ́της (Kallikrátēs)
• Καλλικρατίδας (Kallikratídas)
• Καλλίμαχος (Kallímakhos)
• Καλλίξενος (Kallíxenos)
• Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē)
• καλλιπάρῃος (kallipárēios)
• καλλίπυγος (kallípugos)
• Καλλισθένης (Kallisthénēs)
• Καλλίστη (Kallístē)
• Καλλίστρατος (Kallístratos)
• Καλλιστώ (Kallistṓ)
• Καλλιφῶν (Kalliphôn)
• περικαλλής (perikallḗs)

 

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^[1], 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”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.los/

Noun

κάλλος • (kállos) n (plural κάλλη)

1. beauty

Declension

Declension of κάλλος

	singular	plural
nominative	κάλλος •	κάλλη •
genitive	κάλλους •	—
accusative	κάλλος •	κάλλη •
vocative	κάλλος •	κάλλη •

Related terms

• καλλιγραφία f (kalligrafía, “calligraphy”)

Further reading

• κάλλος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language