καλόν (kalon)

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

Found 2,151 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.778: καλὸν ἐρευθόμενος, γάνυται δέ τε ἠιθέοιο

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 29.16: καἰ μέν σευ τὸ κάλον τις ἴδων ῥέθος αἰνέσαι,

Plutarch, Consolatio Ad Uxorem 6: … ῖρας, εἶτʼ ἀποθανόντων ἐκχεομένας εἰς κενὸν καὶ ἀχάριστον πένθος, οὐχ ὑπʼ εὐνοίας ʽ εὐλόγιστον γὰρ εὔνοια καὶ καλόν̓· ἀλλὰ μικρῷ τῷ φυσικῷ πάθει πολὺ συγκεραννύμενον τὸ πρὸς κενὴν δόξαν ἄγρια ποιεῖ καὶ μανικὰ καὶ δυσεξίλαστα τ …

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.