κακοῦ (kakou)

κακοῦ is an Ancient Greek form of κακός, meaning “bad, evil, cowardly”. It is the genitive singular neuter adjective.

Found 540 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.5.4: … ευον τοῖς ἔξω τῆς πόλεως τῶν Πλαταιῶν· ἦσαν γὰρ καὶ ἄνθρωποι κατὰ τοὺς ἀγροὺς καὶ κατασκευή, οἷα ἀπροσδοκήτου κακοῦ ἐν εἰρήνῃ γενομένου· ἐβούλοντο γὰρ σφίσιν, εἴ τινα λάβοιεν, ὑπάρχειν ἀντὶ τῶν ἔνδον, ἢν ἄρα τύχωσί τινες ἐζωγ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.39.3: … πήλαιον ἀφικνεῖται τοῖς μὲν ἴχνεσι διαρτώμενος, οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον οἰόμενος δεῖν διερευνήσασθαι τὸν χῶρον. τοῦ δὲ Κάκου πρὸ τῆς θύρας ἑστῶτος καὶ οὔτʼ ἰδεῖν τὰς βοῦς φάσκοντος ἐρομένῳ οὔτʼ ἐρευνᾶσθαι ἐπιτρέποντος αἰτουμένῳ τούς τ …

All forms of κακός (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.