κωφότης
καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)
English (LSJ)
ητος, ἡ, deafness, Hp.Epid.3.17.ζ, Pl.Alc.1.126b, Plu.2.167c; dullness of hearing, ib.38b: metaph., D.19.226, Phld.Rh.2.118S.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ητος (ἡ) :
1 surdité ; affaiblissement de l'ouïe;
2 p. ext. hébètement, affaiblissement ; fig. sottise, stupidité.
Étymologie: κωφός.
Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)
κωφότης -ητος, ἡ [κωφός] doofheid; overdr. ongevoeligheid.
German (Pape)
ητος, ἡ, Stumpfheit der Sinne, bes. Taubheit, Arist. und Sp. im Gegensatz von ἀκριβὴς αἴσθησις Dem. 19.226; Unempfindlichkeit, Arist. H.A. 10.1.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
κωφότης: ητος ἡ
1 глухота Plat., Plut.;
2 расслабленность, вялость (sc. τῆς ὑστέρας Arst.);
3 тупоумие (τοσαύτη κ. καὶ τοσοῦτο σκότος Dem.).
Greek Monotonic
κωφότης: -ητος, ἡ, κουφότητα, αβλύτητα, σε Πλάτ., Δημ. κ.λπ.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κωφότης: -ητος, ἡ, ἡ ἰδιότης τοῦ κωφοῦ, Ἱππ. Ἐπιδ. 3. 1103, Πλάτ. Ἀλκ., Δημ. 411. 25, κτλ.· ἀδυναμία τῆς ἀκοῆς, Πλούτ. 2. 38Β, 167Β. 2) καθόλου, ἀμβλύτης, νωθρότης, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 10. 1, 9.
Middle Liddell
κωφότης, ητος, [from κωφός
deafness, Plat., Dem., etc.
Translations
Arabic: صَمَم; Armenian: խլություն; Belarusian: глухата; Bulgarian: глухота; Catalan: sordesa; Chinese Mandarin: 聾, 聋; Czech: hluchota; Danish: døvhed; Dutch: doofheid; Estonian: kuulmispuue; Finnish: kuurous; French: surdité; German: Taubheit, Gehörlosigkeit, Schwerhörigkeit, Surditas; Greek: κώφωση, κωφότητα; Ancient Greek: κωφότης; Hebrew: חירשות; Hindi: बहरापन; Hunsrik: Daabheet, Daabheit; Irish: bodhaire; Italian: sordità; Japanese: 難聴; Kazakh: кереңдік; Latin: surditas; Latvian: kurlums; Macedonian: глувост; Malay: kepekakan, ketulian; Navajo: ajéékałgo ąąh dahazʼą́; Norwegian Bokmål: døvhet; Polish: głuchota; Portuguese: surdez; Russian: глухота; Scottish Gaelic: buidhre; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: глуво̀ћа, глувост, глухо̀ћа, глухост; Roman: gluvòća, gluvost, gluhòća, gluhost; Sicilian: surdania; Slovak: hluchota; Slovene: gluhota; Spanish: sordera; Swedish: dövhet; Telugu: చెవుడు, చెవిటితనం; Ukrainian: глухота, глухість
