καλάς (kalas)

καλάς is an Ancient Greek form of καλός, meaning “beautiful, fine, noble”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 151 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.100: … λέως σύμμετρον. εἴδη δʼ εἶναι τοῦ καλοῦ τέτταρα, δίκαιον, ἀνδρεῖον, κόσμιον, ἐπιστημονικόν· ἐν γὰρ τοῖσδε τὰς καλὰς πράξεις συντελεῖσθαι. ἀνὰ λόγον δὲ καὶ τοῦ αἰσχροῦ εἶναι εἴδη τέτταρα, τό τʼ ἄδικον καὶ τὸ δειλὸν καὶ ἄκοσμον …

Euripides, Orestes 467: ἀπέδωκʼ ἀμοιβὰς οὐ καλάς. τίνα σκότον

Plutarch, Lacaenarum Apophthegmata 5.8: θάπτουσά τις τὸν υἱόν, ὡς γραΐδιον εὐτελὲς προσελθὸν αὐτῇ ὦ γύναι τᾶς τύχας εἶπε, νὴ τὼ σιὼ ἀλλὰ τᾶς καλᾶς γʼ ἔφη· καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸν οὗ ἕνεκεν ἔτεκον, ἵνʼ ὑπὲρ τᾶς Σπάρτας ἀποθάνῃ, τοῦτό μοι συνέβη

All forms of καλός (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.