καλός

• κᾱ́λος (kā́los) — Aeolic
• κᾰλϝός (kălwós) — Boeotian

From earlier κᾰλϝός (kălwós), probably from Proto-Indo-European *kal-wo-s, formed from *kal- (“beautiful”).^[1]

Cognate to Sanskrit कल्य (kalya), Sanskrit कल्याण (kalyā́ṇa), Albanian kolmë.

(Attic, etc.):

(Epic):

κᾱ̆λός • (kā̆lós) m (feminine κᾱ̆λή, neuter κᾱ̆λόν); first/second declension

1. beautiful; lovely
2. useful; helpful; appropriate
3. good; right; moral; virtuous; noble

• The first syllable is usually long in Epic and early iambic poetry, due to its original form being καλϝός (kalwós), resulting in a syllable ending in a consonant: /kal.ˈwos/: once the digamma was lost, the heavy syllable was reanalyzed as being the consequence of a long vowel in the first syllable: κᾱλός (kālós).

  c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.96–97:

  ὣς εἰποῦσ’ ὑπὸ ποσσὶν ἐδήσατο κᾱλὰ [= καλϝά] πέδῑλα,
  ἀμβρόσια χρῡ́σεια,

  hṑs eipoûs’ hupò possìn edḗsato kālà [= kalwá] pédīla,
  ambrósia khrū́seia,

  So saying, she tied beautiful immortal golden sandals under her feet,

• In lyric poetry and tragedy, the α is short; in elegiac, epigrammatic, and bucolic poets, it is variable.

• Greek: καλός (kalós, “good”)
• Arabic: قالون (“Qālūn”)

• “καλός, ή, όν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “καλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• καλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• καλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “καλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2570 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• καλός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • admirable idem, page 12.
  • artistic idem, page 42.
  • auspicious idem, page 53.
  • beautiful idem, page 68.
  • buxom idem, page 107.
  • capital idem, page 111.
  • comely idem, page 145.
  • creditable idem, page 183.
  • elegant idem, page 265.
  • estimable idem, page 283.
  • excellent idem, page 288.
  • exquisite idem, page 296.
  • fair idem, page 302.
  • favourable idem, page 311.
  • fine idem, page 321.
  • fortunate idem, page 340.
  • good idem, page 366.
  • goodly idem, page 367.
  • handsome idem, page 383.
  • happy idem, page 384.
  • high-principled idem, page 400.
  • honourable idem, page 405.
  • hopeful idem, page 405.
  • lovely idem, page 502.
  • lucky idem, page 504.
  • noble idem, page 559.
  • ornamental idem, page 580.
  • picturesque idem, page 611.
  • plausible idem, page 618.
  • pomantic idem, page 625.
  • principled idem, page 641.
  • promising idem, page 653.
  • propitious idem, page 653.
  • reputable idem, page 699.
  • righteous idem, page 715.
  • skilful idem, page 780.
  • specious idem, page 799.
  • spruce idem, page 806.
  • virtuous idem, page 954.
  • well-favoured idem, page 974.
• καλός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek κᾰλός (“beautiful, morally beautiful, of good quality”), from Proto-Indo-European *kal-wo-s, form of *kal- (“beautiful”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈlos/
• Hyphenation: κα‧λός
• Homophone: καλώς (kalós)

καλός • (kalós) m (feminine καλή, neuter καλό)

1. good

   Antonym: κακός (kakós)

2. nice, likeable

Degrees of comparisons: see absolute comparative καλύτερος (kalýteros) and superlatives άριστος (áristos), learned κάλλιστος. Also, the less common καλότατος (kalótatos).

• καλό ταξίδι (kaló taxídi, “bon voyage”, literally “good journey”)
• καλή όρεξη (kalí órexi, “bon appetit”, literally “good appetite”)
• καλό μήνα (kaló mína, literally “good month”) (a greeting for the new month)

• καλό (kaló)

καλός • (kalós) m (plural καλοί)

1. the good man

   Οι καλοί θα πάνε στον Παράδεισο. ― Oi kaloí tha páne ston Parádeiso. ― The good will go to Heaven.

2. goodie, goody
3. sweetheart