ignoramus

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After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“to not know, to be unacquainted with, to be ignorant of”).

Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: наҙан — totally ignorant person
• Bulgarian: невежа (neveža) — totally ignorant person
• Chinese Mandarin: 無知的人 /无知的人 (wúzhī de rén) — totally ignorant person
• Chinese Mandarin: 笨蛋 (bèndàn) — totally ignorant person
• Chinese Mandarin: 愚人 (yúrén) — totally ignorant person
• Czech: ignorant — totally ignorant person
• Czech: nevědomec — totally ignorant person
• Finnish: tolvana — totally ignorant person
• Finnish: tomppeli — totally ignorant person
• French: ignare — totally ignorant person
• Georgian: უვიცი (uvici) — totally ignorant person
• German: Ignorant — totally ignorant person
• German: Nichtswisser — totally ignorant person
• German: unwissender Mensch — totally ignorant person
• German: unwissende Person — totally ignorant person
• German: Dummkopf — totally ignorant person
• German: Ignorantin — totally ignorant person
• German: Nichtswisserin — totally ignorant person
• Hungarian: tudatlan (ember/alak/fráter) — totally ignorant person
• Icelandic: fávís maður — totally ignorant person
• Icelandic: fáfróður maður — totally ignorant person
• Irish: abhlóir — totally ignorant person
• Irish: ainbhiosán — totally ignorant person
• Irish: aineolaí — totally ignorant person
• Irish: amadán — totally ignorant person
• Irish: dalldramán — totally ignorant person
• Irish: graoisín — totally ignorant person
• Irish: tuata — totally ignorant person
• Italian: ignorante — totally ignorant person
• Korean: 무식쟁이 (musikjaeng'i) — totally ignorant person
• Northern Kurdish: cahil — totally ignorant person
• Northern Kurdish: nezan — totally ignorant person
• Northern Kurdish: bêhiş — totally ignorant person
• Macedonian: незнајко (neznajko) — totally ignorant person
• Māori: rorirori — totally ignorant person
• Old Church Slavonic: невѣжда (nevěžda) — totally ignorant person
• Polish: ignorant — totally ignorant person
• Polish: ignorantka — totally ignorant person
• Polish: nieuk — totally ignorant person
• Polish: abnegat — totally ignorant person
• Polish: abnegatka — totally ignorant person
• Russian: неве́жда (nevéžda) — totally ignorant person
• Russian: не́уч (néuč) — totally ignorant person
• Russian: профа́н (profán) — totally ignorant person
• Russian: незна́йка (neznájka) — totally ignorant person
• Spanish: ignaro — totally ignorant person
• Spanish: ignorante — totally ignorant person
• Spanish: chúntaro — totally ignorant person
• Swedish: dumhuvud — totally ignorant person
• Tonga (Malawi): mujira class 1 — totally ignorant person
• Tumbuka: mujira — totally ignorant person
• Ukrainian: неві́глас (nevíhlas) — totally ignorant person
• Ukrainian: незна́йко (neznájko) — totally ignorant person
• Ukrainian: не́ук (néuk) — totally ignorant person
• Ukrainian: профа́н (profán) — totally ignorant person
• Ukrainian: анальфабе́т (analʹfabét) — totally ignorant person
• Vietnamese: ếch ngồi đáy giếng — totally ignorant person
• Yiddish: עם־⁠האָרץ (amorets) — totally ignorant person