καλός

Etymology
From earlier, probably from , formed from.

Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation
In most cases:

In epic poetry and in some other cases:

Adjective

 * 1) beautiful, lovely
 * 2) good, quality, useful
 * 3) good, right, moral, virtuous, noble

Usage notes
In epic and early iambic poetry, this word almost always has a long (heavy) first syllable. This was originally a consequence of the digamma — — which resulted in a syllable ending in a consonant:. But, once the digamma was lost, the heavy syllable was reanalyzed as being the consequence of a long vowel in the first syllable:. In lyric poetry and tragedy, the α is short; in elegiac, epigrammatic, and bucolic poets it is variable.

Etymology
From, from , form of.

Adjective

 * 1) good
 * 2) nice, likeable
 * 1) nice, likeable

Noun

 * 1) the good man
 * 2) goodie, goody
 * 3) sweetheart
 * 1) sweetheart