ἅλιον
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
French (Bailly abrégé)
adv.
vainement.
Étymologie: neutre de ἅλιος².
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἅλιον: (ᾰ) adv. напрасно, бесполезно, тщетно, попусту Hom., Soph.
Translations
unsuccessfully
Czech: neúspěšně; Esperanto: sensukcese; Hungarian: sikertelenül; Russian: безуспешно; Spanish: infructuosamente
in vain
Arabic: عَبَثًا; Armenian: զուր, իզուր; Belarusian: дарэмна, дарма, марна; Bulgarian: напразно; Catalan: en va; Chinese Mandarin: 徒然, 白白, 無益, 无益, 徒勞, 徒劳; Chinook Jargon: k'ax̣chi; Czech: neúspěšně; Dutch: tevergeefs, vergeefs; English: in vain, vainly, pointlessly, uselessly; Esperanto: sensolve, vane; Finnish: turhaan, tarpeettomasti, tarpeetta; French: en vain, inutilement; Galician: en balde, en van; German: vergebens, vergeblich; Greek: μάταια, του κάκου, εις μάτην, επί ματαίω; Ancient Greek: ἄκραντα, ἀλεμάτως, ἅλιον, ἁλίως, ἄλλως, ἀνεμώλια, ἀνονήτως, ἀνωφελῶς, ἀπράκτως, ἀσυντελῶς, ἀτελέστως, αὔσιον, αὔτως, ἀχρεῖον, ἀχρήστως, διὰ κενῆς, διακενῆς, διακένως, δωρεάν, εἰκαῖα, εἰκῇ, ἐν κενοῖς, ἐτώσια, ἐτώσιον, ἠλέματα, ἠλεμάτως, ματαίως, μάτην, μάψ, τηνάλλως, τηυσίως, τηϋσίως, φρούδως; Hungarian: hiába, hasztalan, hasztalanul; Icelandic: til einskis, árangurslaus, unnið fyrir gýg; Italian: invano; Japanese: 無益の; Kazakh: бекер; Korean: 헛되이; Kurdish Central Kurdish: باداوە; Latin: in cassum, futtile, frustra, in vanum; Malayalam: വൃഥാ, വെറുതെ; Manchu: ᠮᡝᡴᡝᠯᡝ; Maori: parau, paraurehe, huakore; Navajo: chʼééh; Norwegian Bokmål: forgjeves, fånyttes; Nynorsk: forgjeves; Old English: on īdel; Plautdietsch: vejäfs; Polish: daremnie, na darmo, na próżno, bezskutecznie; Portuguese: em vão, inutilmente; Romanian: degeaba, în zadar; Russian: напрасно, зря, даром, тщетно, впустую, всуе, зря, безуспешно, попусту; Serbo-Croatian: ȕzalūd, ȕzalūdno; Slovene: zamàn; Spanish: en vano, en balde, inútilmente; Swedish: förgäves; Tagalog: lihing; Ukrainian: марно, даремно, дарма; Vietnamese: hoài