κακία
See also: κακιά and Κάκια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κᾰκός (kakós, “bad, evil”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.kí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈki.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈci.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈci.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈci.a/
Noun
κᾰκῐ́ᾱ • (kakíā) f (genitive κᾰκῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- lack of quality
- evil, wickedness, vice, depravity
- cowardice
- dishonour, shame
- misfortune
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κᾰκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ hē kakíā | τὼ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ kakíā | αἱ κᾰκῐ́αι hai kakíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰκῐ́ᾱς tês kakíās | τοῖν κᾰκῐ́αιν toîn kakíain | τῶν κᾰκῐῶν tôn kakiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰκῐ́ᾳ têi kakíāi | τοῖν κᾰκῐ́αιν toîn kakíain | ταῖς κᾰκῐ́αις taîs kakíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰκῐ́ᾱν tḕn kakíān | τὼ κᾰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ kakíā | τᾱ̀ς κᾰκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kakíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰκῐ́ᾱ kakíā | κᾰκῐ́ᾱ kakíā | κᾰκῐ́αι kakíai | ||||||||||
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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, 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.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κακία (kakía).
Noun
κακία • (kakía) f (plural κακίες)
- evil
- malice, rancour
- grudge
Declension
declension of κακία
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | κακία • | κακίες • |
genitive | κακίας • | κακιών • |
accusative | κακία • | κακίες • |
vocative | κακία • | κακίες • |