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κἀκεῖνο (kakeino)

κἀκεῖνο is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκεῖνος, meaning “that, that one (there)”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 215 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.56: … ὸν Εὐριπίδην τρίβωνες ἐκλιπόντες οἴχονται κρόκας. ὅπερ συνιδὼν ὁ Σόλων μετρίως αὐτοὺς ἀπεδέξατο. κάλλιστον δὲ κἀκεῖνο· τὸν ἐπίτροπον τῇ τῶν ὀρφανῶν μητρὶ μὴ συνοικεῖν, μηδʼ ἐπιτροπεύειν, εἰς ὃν ἡ οὐσία ἔρχεται τῶν ὀρφανῶν τελευ …

Euripides, Bacchae 771: κἀκεῖνό φασιν αὐτόν, ὡς ἐγὼ κλύω,

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2.6: … ὶ τὸ τετράγωνον μεταβάλλειν, οἷον εἰ τρεῖς, ἕξ, εἰ δὲ τέτταρες, ὀκτώ. κἂν εἰ μὴ μεταβάλλοι, τοιοῦτον δʼ ἐστί, κακεῖνο τοιοῦτον ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι. δῆλον δʼ ὃ ἐπιχειροῦμεν ὅτι ἀναγκαῖον, ἐκ τῶν ἀναλυτικῶν· νῦν δʼ οὔτε μὴ λέγειν οὔτ …

All forms of ἐκεῖνος (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.