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ὄφελος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄφελος ὀφέλους

Structure: ὀφελο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)fe/llw2

Sense

  1. furtherance, advantage, help, good, benefit
  2. the best
  3. (governs the dative) help against something

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐλέγχων ἐν ρήμασιν, οἷσ οὐ δεῖ, καὶ ἐν λόγοισ, οἷσ οὐδὲν ὄφελοσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 15:3)
  • ἵνα δέ σοι δῶ αὐτὰ ἐκεῖνα κεκρικέναι, ὅσα ὁ Καλλῖνοσ εἰσ κάλλοσ ἢ ὁ ἀοίδιμοσ Ἀττικὸσ σὺν ἐπιμελείᾳ τῇ πάσῃ ἔγραψαν,^ σοὶ τί ὄφελοσ, ὦ θαυμάσιε, τοῦ κτήματοσ οὔτε εἰδότι τὸ κάλλοσ αὐτῶν οὔτε χρησομένῳ ποτὲ οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἢ τυφλὸσ ἄν τισ ἀπολαύσειε κάλλουσ παιδικῶν; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 2:1)
  • εἴ τισ αὐλεῖν μὴ ἐπιστάμενοσ κτήσαιτο τοὺσ Τιμοθέου αὐλοὺσ ἢ τοὺσ Ἰσμηνίου, οὓσ ἑπτὰ ταλάντων ὁ Ἰσμηνίασ ἐν Κορίνθῳ ἐπρίατο, ἆρ’ ἂν διὰ τοῦτο καὶ αὐλεῖν δύναιτο, ἢ οὐδὲν ὄφελοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ κτήματοσ οὐκ ἐπισταμένῳ χρήσασθαι κατὰ τὴν τέχνην; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 5:4)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ὄφελοσ ἀπορρήτου, φασί, καὶ ἀφανοῦσ τῆσ μουσικῆσ. (Lucian, Harmonides 3:4)
  • αὐτοί τε οὖν ἤδη συνεληλύθατε, ὅ τι περ ὄφελοσ ἐξ ἑκάστησ πόλεωσ, αὐτὸ δὴ τὸ κεφάλαιον ἁπάντων Μακεδόνων, καὶ ὑποδέχεται πόλισ ἡ ἀρίστη οὖσα οὐ κατὰ Πίσαν μὰ Δί̓ οὐδὲ τὴν κεῖθι στενοχωρίαν καὶ σκηνὰσ καὶ καλύβασ καὶ πνῖγοσ, οἵ τε αὖ πανηγυρισταὶ οὐ συρφετώδησ ὄχλοσ, ἀθλητῶν μᾶλλον φιλοθεάμονεσ, ἐν παρέργῳ οἱ πολλοὶ τὸν Ἡρόδοτον τιθέμενοι, ἀλλὰ ῥητόρων τε καὶ συγγραφέων καὶ σοφιστῶν οἱ δοκιμώτατοι, ὅσον οὐ μικρὸν ἤδη, μὴ τοὐμὸν παρὰ πολὺ ἐνδεέστερον φαίνηται τῶν Ὀλυμπίων. (Lucian, Herodotus 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. the best

  2. help against something

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