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tsuwm's wwftd today derives from Gr. philo- + kalos, beautiful. I cannot think of any (other) words in the English language to incorporate kalos.
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kalidascope...(a beautiful way to see(things)
caligraphy...(beautiful scrip or writing)
there are others, but these spring to mind
i had the same brain dead responce to your word lith.. monolith, lithograph, etc....
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well, direct from the wwftd list there are these:
kalon - the ideal of physical/moral beauty esp as conceived by the Greek philosophers, the kind of beauty that is more than skin deep
kalopsia - the delusion that things are more beautiful than they really are
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oh, and lest we forget, The Callipygian Venus.
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Problem: my dictionary in etymology of "callipygy" gives"kallos" as root meaning beauty. Is your "kalos" spelled correctly, or are there two words?
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evidently kallos is beauty and kalos is beautiful. or something like that--it's all just approximation without a Greek character set.
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oh, and lest we forget, The Callipygian Venus.
She the one who was told to butt out some time ago?
- ron devious
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A pair of callipygian buttocks don't mean a thing unless you're between them.
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kalos = beautiful, applied by the Greeks to everything so distinguished in form, excellence, goodness, usefulness, as to be pleasing.....beatiful to look at, shapely, magnificent; good, excellent in its nature and characteristics, and therefore well-adapted to its ends.
-- Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
kallion = better.
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