ἄνοος
anoos
without understanding, silly
Appears 568 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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On the Heavens 113 ▸
Open On the Heavens ›Book I 26 ▸
Chapter 9 277b27–279b3Book II 40 ▸
Chapter 2 284b6–286a2Chapter 4 286b10–287b21Chapter 14 296a24–298a20Book III 3 ▸
Book IV 44 ▸
Chapter 6 313a16–313b23 -
History of Animals 79 ▸
Open History of Animals ›Book I 16 ▸
Book II 14 ▸
Book III 10 ▸
Book IV 13 ▸
Book V 3 ▸
Book VI 8 ▸
Book VII 3 ▸
Book VIII 5 ▸
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Meteorology 62 ▸
Open Meteorology ›Book I 32 ▸
Chapter 1 338a20–339a10Chapter 2 339a11–32Chapter 5 342a34–342b24Chapter 8 345a11–346b15Book II 22 ▸
Book III 5 ▸
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Parts of Animals 58 ▸
Open Parts of Animals ›Book II 12 ▸
Book III 16 ▸
Book IV 30 ▸
Chapter 9 684b6–685b28Chapter 10 685b29–690b10Chapter 12 692b3–695a27Chapter 14 697b14–30 -
Physics 56 ▸
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Generation of Animals 41 ▸
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Progression of Animals 30 ▸
Open Progression of Animals ›Chapter 2 704b12–705a2Chapter 3 705a3–25Chapter 13 712a1–22Chapter 16 713a26–713b20Chapter 18 714a20–714b7 -
Posterior Analytics 20 ▸
Open Posterior Analytics ›Book I 18 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 14 ▸
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Metaphysics 10 ▸
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On Length and Shortness of Life 4 ▸
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Movement of Animals 3 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 3 ▸
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Categories 2 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 2 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 2 ▸
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Politics 2 ▸
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On Colours 1 ▸
Open On Colours ›Chapter 5 794b12–797a32 -
On Dreams 1 ▸
Open On Dreams ›Chapter 3 460b28–462b11 -
On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 1 ▸
Open On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias ›Chapter 4 977b21–979a11 -
On Memory 1 ▸
Open On Memory ›Chapter 2 451a18–453b11 -
Rhetoric 1 ▸
Open Rhetoric ›Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 11 1411b22–1413b2
Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄνοος, ον, contr. ἄνους, ουν, A. without understanding, silly, κραδίη Il. 21.441; ψυχή Pl. Ti. 44a, etc.; of persons, S. Ant. 99; ἄνους τε καὶ γέρων ἅμα ib.281; πλοῦτος ἄ. wealth without wit, AP 9.43 (Parmen.): Comp. ἀνούστερος A. Pr. 987: Sup. ἀνούστατος Pherecr. 19D. Adv., Comp. ἀνουστέρως S. Fr. 589.1.
Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
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