var. spelling of CACO-, repr. Gr. κακο- bad, evil, favored by many recent writers, esp. in technical terms, or in such as directly represent Gr. words: e.g., kakodaimon, kakodoxy, kakogenesis, kakography, kakotopia, kakotrophy, kakoxenite, etc., and esp. Kakodyl(e. Examples of these are very rare before the 19th c., and appear chiefly in its later half. See the words under C.
