κακία

See also: κακιά and Κάκια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κᾰκός (kăkós, “bad, evil”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.kí.aː/ → /kaˈci.a/ → /kaˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.kí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈci.a/

Noun

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

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

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κᾰκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ hē kăkĭ́ā	τὼ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ kăkĭ́ā	αἱ κᾰκῐ́αι hai kăkĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰκῐ́ᾱς tês kăkĭ́ās	τοῖν κᾰκῐ́αιν toîn kăkĭ́ain	τῶν κᾰκῐῶν tôn kăkĭôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰκῐ́ᾳ têi kăkĭ́āi	τοῖν κᾰκῐ́αιν toîn kăkĭ́ain	ταῖς κᾰκῐ́αις taîs kăkĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰκῐ́ᾱν tḕn kăkĭ́ān	τὼ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ kăkĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kăkĭ́ās
Vocative	κᾰκῐ́ᾱ kăkĭ́ā	κᾰκῐ́ᾱ kăkĭ́ā	κᾰκῐ́αι kăkĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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^[1], 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”, 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 κακία (kakía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈci.a/

Noun

κακία • (kakía) f (plural κακίες)

1. evil
2. malice, rancour
3. grudge

Declension

Declension of κακία

	singular	plural
nominative	κακία (kakía)	κακίες (kakíes)
genitive	κακίας (kakías)	κακιών (kakión)
accusative	κακία (kakía)	κακίες (kakíes)
vocative	κακία (kakía)	κακίες (kakíes)

Further reading

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