ὁριστός
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)
ὁριστή, ὁριστόν,
A definable, Arist.Metaph. 998b6, Plu.2.720b, A.D.Pron.27.18,al.
2 of land, delimited, Abh. Berl.Akad.1925(5).21 (Cyrene).
French (Bailly abrégé)
ή, όν :
déterminé, défini ; qu'on peut déterminer, définir.
Étymologie: ὁρίζω.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ὁριστός: определяемый, определенный: οἱ ὁρισμοὶ καὶ τὰ ὁριστά Arst. определения и их содержания.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὁριστός: -ή, -όν, οὗ δύναταί τις νὰ δώσῃ τὸν ὁρισμόν, Ἀριστ. Μετὰ τὰ Φυσ. 2. 3, Πλούτ. 2. 720Β.
Greek Monolingual
ὁριστός, -ή, -όν (Α) ορίζω
1. αυτός που είναι δεκτικός ορισμού, που μπορεί να οριστεί
2. (για κτήμα) καθορισμένο με όρια, οριοθετημένο.
