καθήκοντος (kathekontos)

καθήκοντος is an Ancient Greek form of καθήκω, meaning “come down; be fitting”. It is the present active participle genitive singular masculine.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.24: … ιον ἀναμένει; τὸν δὲ φάναι· καὶ ὅτε ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος ἐστρατευόμην, ὑπέμενον τοὺς κινδύνους, καὶ νῦν ὑπὲρ τοῦ καθήκοντος διὰ φίλον ὑπομενῶ. Οὗτος πρῶτος ἐν ἐρωτήσει λόγον παρήνεγκεν, ὥς φησι Φαβωρῖνος ἐν ὀγδόῃ Παντοδαπῆς ἱστορίας. …

Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis 23·2: ἐν δὲ τῷ ἕκτῳ περὶ Καθήκοντος εἶναί τινα φήσας πράγματα μὴ πάνυ πολλῆς ἄξια ὄντα πραγματείας μηδὲ προσοχῆς ἀφιέναι περὶ ταῦτα τῇ ὡς ἔτυχεν …

All forms of καθήκω (conjugation 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.