ἄνους
δυοῖν κακοῖν προκειμένοιν τὸ μὴ χεῖρον βέλτιστον → the lesser of two evils, the less bad thing of a pair of bad things, better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
English (LSJ)
ουν, contr. for ἄνοος.
Spanish (DGE)
v. ἄνοος.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ους, ουν :
att. c. ἄνοος.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἄνους: ουν, (= ἀνούατος, ἄωτος, ἄνευ ὠτὸς ἤτοι λαβῆς) Ἐπιγρ. Ἀθηνῶν [ἡδυπότ]ιον, ὃ ἀνέθηκε Κτησικλῆς, ἄνους... ἄνουν Bull. de cor. hell. II. σ. 425.
Greek Monolingual
-ουν (AM ἄνους και ἄνοος, -ον)
1. άμυαλος, ανόητος
2. επιπόλαιος, ασύνετος
νεοελλ.
αυτός που πάσχει από άνοια.
Greek Monotonic
ἄνους: -ουν, συνηρ. αντί ἄνοος.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἄνους: стяж. = ἄνοος.
Translations
foolish
Albanian: budalla; Arabic: أَحْمَق, غَبِيّ, سَفِيهٌ; Armenian: հիմար, տխմար, ապուշ; Asturian: neciu, ñeciu; Azerbaijani: ağılsız, axmaq; Belarusian: дурны; Bengali: মূর্খ; Bulgarian: неразумен, глупав; Burmese: မိုက်မဲ; Catalan: ximple; Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏓᎴᏍᎩ; Chinese Cantonese: 傻, 笨; Mandarin: 笨, 傻, 蠢, 愚蠢的; Chuukese: tiparoch; Czech: pošetilý, hloupý; Danish: tåbelig, dum; Dutch: onverstandig, dom; Esperanto: malsaĝa, stulta; Estonian: rumal, narr; Finnish: houkkamainen; French: sot, stupide, bête, idiot; Galician: necio; Georgian: სულელი; German: dumm, närrisch, töricht; Gothic: 𐌳𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍃, 𐌿𐌽𐍆𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃; Greek: ανόητος; Ancient Greek: ἄφρων; Hebrew: מטופש, טיפשי; Hindi: मूर्ख; Icelandic: heimskur; Ido: dessaja; Irish: leibideach, díchéillí, aimhghlic; Italian: babbeo; Japanese: 愚かな, 馬鹿げた, 馬鹿な; Kabuverdianu: tolobásku; Khmer: ភ្លើ; Korean: 어리석다, 둔하다; Kurdish Northern Ladino: bovo; Latin: fatuus, stultus, morus, ineptus; Latvian: muļķīgs, dumjš, neprātīgs; Lithuanian: kvailas, neprotingas; Luxembourgish: domm, topeg; Macedonian: глупав; Manx: ommidjagh, blebbinagh, neuhushtagh, meecheeallagh, sou-cheayllagh, bolvaneagh; Maori: manuware, nenekara, rūrūwai, heahea, wawau; Norwegian Bokmål: tåpelig, dum; Persian: احمق, ببو; Polish: niemądry, głupi; Portuguese: idiota, tolo; Romanian: prost, tont, nerod; Russian: глупый, дурацкий, дурной, идиотский; Sardinian Campidanese: bovu, bacciloi, lolloi, managu, mengòsu; Logudorese: dòndoro, ménzu, menzosu, bovu; Scottish Gaelic: amaideach, faoin; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: будаласт, глуп; Roman: budalast, glup; Slovak: pochabý, hlúpy; Slovene: neumen, butast, trapast; Spanish: tonto, necio, imprudente; Swedish: dåraktig, dum; Telugu: మూర్ఖ, పిచ్చి; Thai: โง่; Tocharian A: āknats; Tocharian B: aknātsa; Turkish: ahmak, akılsız, aptalca, enayice, sersem, angut; Ukrainian: дурний; Urdu: مورکھ; Vietnamese: dại dột; Volapük: fopik; Yiddish: נאַריש
