καλή (kale)

καλή is an Ancient Greek form of καλός, meaning “beautiful, fine, noble”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 226 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.919: τοῖος ἐών, οἷος πόλεμόνδʼ ἴεν· ἀμφὶ δὲ καλὴ

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.86.8: παρῆσαν δὲ καὶ Ἀργείων πρέσβεις, ἐπαγγελλόμενοι τῷ ἐν τῇ Σάμῳ τῶν Ἀθηναίων δήμῳ ὥστε βοηθεῖν· ὁ δὲ Ἀλκιβιάδης ἐπαινέσας αὐτοὺς καὶ εἰπὼν ὅταν τις καλῇ παρεῖναι οὕτως ἀπέπεμπεν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.99: … ος γραμματικὸς χρήσιμος ἂν εἴη παρʼ ὅσον γραμματικός ἐστι; ναί. οὐκοῦν καὶ γυνὴ καλὴ χρησίμη ἂν εἴη παρʼ ὅσον καλή ἐστι, καὶ παῖς καὶ νεανίσκος καλὸς χρήσιμος ἂν εἴη παρʼ ὅσον καλός ἐστι; ναί. καὶ παῖς ἄρα καὶ νεανίσκος καλὸ …

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.