κακόν (kakon)

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

Found 2,106 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.82: ὡς οὐκ ἀνθρώποισι κακὸν μήκιστον ἐπαυρεῖν,

Plutarch, Amatorius 18: … αι οἱ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς γαῦρον. ἄξιον δὲ Σαπφοῦς παρὰ ταῖς Μούσαις μνημονεῦσαι· τὸν μὲν γὰρ Ἡφαίστου παῖδα Ῥωμαῖοι Κᾶκον ἱστοροῦσι πῦρ καὶ φλόγας ἀφιέναι διὰ τοῦ στόματος ἔξω ῥεούσας· αὕτη δʼ ἀληθῶς μεμιγμένα πυρὶ φθέγγεται καὶ δι …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 119.2: καὶ μή τι ϝείπην γλῶσσʼ ἐκύκα κάκον,

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.