Ancient Greek

Adjective

καινός • ‎(kainós) m ‎(feminine καινή, neuter καινόν); first/second declension

1. new, fresh, unused
2. new, novel, strange, unusual

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἐκ καινῆς ‎(ek kainês, “anew, afresh”)
• καινότης ‎(kainótēs)
• τὸ καινὸν τοῦ πολέμου ‎(tò kainòn toû polémou, “the unforeseen turn which war often takes”)
• καινόω ‎(kainóō)

References

• καινός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καινός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «καινός» 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
• “G2537”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • curious idem, page 190.
  • exceptional idem, page 288.
  • extraordinary idem, page 297.
  • fresh idem, page 344.
  • marvellous idem, page 516.
  • modern idem, page 538.
  • new idem, page 556.
  • new-fangled idem, page 556.
  • novel idem, page 561.
  • original idem, page 579.
  • peculiar idem, page 601.
  • recent idem, page 678.
  • strange idem, page 823.
  • surprising idem, page 844.
  • unaccustomed idem, page 906.
  • uncommon idem, page 910.
  • unexampled idem, page 917.
  • unfamiliar idem, page 917.
  • unheard idem, page 921.
  • unique idem, page 922.
  • unknown idem, page 923.
  • unparalleled idem, page 927.
  • unprecedented idem, page 927.
  • unusual idem, page 935.
  • unwonted idem, page 937.
  • weird idem, page 973.
  • wonderful idem, page 987.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill