κακότης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κακός (kakós) +‎ -της (-tēs)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.kó.tɛːs/ → /kaˈko.tis/ → /kaˈko.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.kó.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈko.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈko.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈko.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈko.tis/

Noun

κᾰκότης • (kakótēs) f (genitive κᾰκότητος); third declension

1. evil, badness, wickedness
2. cowardice

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κᾰκότης; τῆς κᾰκότητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰκότης hē kakótēs	τὼ κᾰκότητε tṑ kakótēte	αἱ κᾰκότητες hai kakótētes
Genitive	τῆς κᾰκότητος tês kakótētos	τοῖν κᾰκοτήτοιν toîn kakotḗtoin	τῶν κᾰκοτήτων tôn kakotḗtōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰκότητῐ têi kakótēti	τοῖν κᾰκοτήτοιν toîn kakotḗtoin	ταῖς κᾰκότησῐ / κᾰκότησῐν taîs kakótēsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰκότητᾰ tḕn kakótēta	τὼ κᾰκότητε tṑ kakótēte	τᾱ̀ς κᾰκότητᾰς tā̀s kakótētas
Vocative	κᾰκότης kakótēs	κᾰκότητε kakótēte	κᾰκότητες kakótētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

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^[1], 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.