Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κεινός ‎(keinós) (Ionic)
• κενεός ‎(keneós) (Poetic)

Adjective

κενός • ‎(kenós) m ‎(feminine κενή, neuter κενόν); first/second declension

1. empty
2. vain, fruitless
3. exhausted, void, destitute

Inflection

References

• κενός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κενός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κενός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κενός» 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
• «κενός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G2756”, 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.
  • aimless idem, page 21.
  • airy idem, page 21.
  • bare idem, page 62.
  • barren idem, page 63.
  • baseless idem, page 64.
  • bereft idem, page 74.
  • blank idem, page 81.
  • causeless idem, page 119.
  • delusive idem, page 209.
  • denude idem, page 211.
  • deprive idem, page 213.
  • devoid of idem, page 220.
  • empty idem, page 269.
  • empty-handed idem, page 269.
  • flimsy idem, page 328.
  • frothy idem, page 347.
  • fruitless idem, page 347.
  • futile idem, page 351.
  • groundless idem, page 375.
  • hollow idem, page 403.
  • idle idem, page 413.
  • illusive idem, page 416.
  • inane idem, page 425.
  • ineffective idem, page 435.
  • purposeless idem, page 659.
  • random idem, page 670.
  • shadowy idem, page 760.
  • sterile idem, page 816.
  • unavailing idem, page 907.
  • unfounded idem, page 919.
  • unfruitful idem, page 919.
  • ungrounded idem, page 920.
  • unmeaning idem, page 925.
  • unnecessary idem, page 926.
  • unprofitable idem, page 928.
  • unsubstantial idem, page 933.
  • untenanted idem, page 934.
  • useless idem, page 940.
  • vacant idem, page 941.
  • vain idem, page 942.
  • void idem, page 956.
  • waste idem, page 965.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κενός ‎(kenós), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱen-.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: καινός ‎(kainós)

Adjective

κενός • ‎(kenós) m ‎(feminine κενή, neuter κενό)

1. empty, free, vacant

Declension

Synonyms

• άδειος ‎(ádeios)