κα (ka)

κα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀλκή, meaning “strength, prowess, courage”. It is the nominative singular feminine noun.

Found 101 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.26.4: ἐπιμένοντες γὰρ αἰεὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Λέσβου τι πεύσεσθαι τῶν νεῶν ἔργον ὡς ἤδη πεπεραιωμένων ἐπεξῆλθον τὰ πολλὰ τέμνοντες. ὡς δ’ οὐδὲν ἀπέβαινεν αὐτοῖς ὧν προσεδέχοντο κὰ ἐπελελοίπει ὁ σῖτος, ἀνεχώρησαν καὶ διελύθησαν κατὰ πόλεις.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.11: … . αἰ πὸτ ἀριθμόν τις περισσόν, αἰ δὲ λῇς, πὸτ ἄρτιον, ποτθέμειν λῇ ψᾶφον ἢ καὶ τᾶν ὑπαρχουσᾶν λαβεῖν, ἦ δοκεῖ κά τοί γʼ ἔθʼ ωὑτὸς εἶμεν;—οὐκ ἐμίν γα κά. — οὐδὲ μὰν οὐδʼ αἰ ποτὶ μέτρον παχυαῖον ποτθέμειν λῇ τις ἕτερον μᾶκος …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 41.16.4: ἀλλʼ ἔναυλον τὸν ἐκ τοῦ πρὶν φόβον ἔχοντες κἁ??ʼ ἐκεῖνον ὑπετόπουν, καὶ μάλισθʼ ὅτι οἱ πρέσβεις ὁ??ʼ τὰς καταλλαγὰς δῆθεν πρυτανεύσοντες ᾑρέθησαν μέν, οὐκ ἐξῆλθον δέ, ἀλλʼ ὅτι καὶ ἐμνήσθη ποτε περὶ αὐτῶν ὁ Πίσων ὁ πενθερὸς αὐτοῦ αἰτίαν ἔσχε

All forms of ἀλκή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.