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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

Greek Monolingual

-ή, -ό (Α ἀκανθικός, -ή, -ὸν) ἀκανθα
ακανθώδης, γεμάτος αγκάθια
«ἀκανθικὴ φύσις» (Θεοφρ., Φυτ. Αιτ. 4, 6).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ Απόδοση ξενικού όρου
< ακανθικός + τρήμα «οπή, τρύπα»].