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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 (Liddell-Scott)

χούρα: ἁ, = χώρα, Ἐπιγρ. Λαρίσης, Mitth. d. d. arch. Inst. VII. σ. 64, στ. 17.

Greek Monolingual

(I)
ἁ, Α
(θεσσαλ. τ.) βλ. χώρα.———————— (II)
η, Ν
βοτ. γένος δένδρων της οικογένειας ευφορβιίδες.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < νεολατ. hura, πιθ. μεταπλασμένος τ. της λ. urari «είδος δένδρου», λ. της γλώσσας τών Ινδιάνων της Καραϊβικής].