καλῷ (kalo)

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

It can also be a form of καλέω, “to call, summon, name”.

Found 342 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.58: οὐδʼ οἴη καλῷ περιδαίομαι Ἐνδυμίωνι·

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.25.5: καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο τῶν Συρακοσίων ἐσβάντων ἐς τὰς ναῦς καὶ παραπλεόντων ἀπὸ κάλω ἐς τὴν Μεσσήνην, αὖθις προσβαλόντες οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀποσιμωσάντων ἐκείνων καὶ προεμβαλόντων, ἑτέραν ναῦν ἀπολλύουσιν.

Euripides, The Trojan Women 1280: δούλας· ἰὼ θεοί. καὶ τί τοὺς θεοὺς καλῶ;

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.