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ὄνησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄνησις

Structure: ὀνησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)ni/nhmi

Sense

  1. use, profit, advantage, good luck, enjoyment of, profit or delight from

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

  • νῦν δ’ οὔτ’ ἐκεῖνον ἄνδρ’ ἔχεισ σαυτῷ φίλον, χρυσοῦ τ’ ὄνησισ οἴχεται παῖδέσ τε σοί, αὐτόσ τε πράσσεισ ὧδε. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 7:8)
  • εὖ εἰδὼσ ὅτι θνητὸσ ἔφυσ σὸν θυμὸν ἀέξε, τερπόμενοσ θαλίῃσι θανόντι σοι οὔτισ ὄνησισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 14 2:1)
  • εὖ εἰδὼσ ὅτι θνητὸσ ἔφυσ σὸν θυμὸν ἀέξε, τερπόμενοσ μύθοισι φαγόντι σοι οὔτισ ὄνησισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 16 1:1)
  • ὥσπερ ἐσόπτρου κατεσκευασμένου χρυσῷ καὶ λίθοισ ὄφελοσ οὐδέν ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ δείκνυσι τὴν μορφὴν ὁμοίαν, οὕτωσ οὐδὲ πλουσίασ γαμετῆσ ὄνησισ, εἰ μὴ παρέχει τὸν βίον ὅμοιον τῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ σύμφωνον τὸ ἦθοσ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 142)
  • "μὴ γενομένου περὶ τὰ Μηδικά, τίσ ἂν ὑμῶν ἦν νῦν ὄνησισ; (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 8 5:3)
  • οὐκοῦν ἔτι γελοιότεροσ ὁ μόνην τὴν φρόνησιν μὴ διδακτὴν ἀποφαίνων, ἧσ ἄνευ τῶν ἄλλων τεχνῶν ὄφελοσ οὐδὲν οὐδ’ ὄνησίσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 3 1:9)
  • οὐκοῦν ἔτι γελοιότεροσ ὁ μόνην τὴν φρόνησιν μὴ διδακτὴν ἀποφαίνων , ἧσ ἄνευ τῶν ἄλλων τεχνῶν ὄφελοσ οὐδὲν οὐδ’ ὄνησίσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 3 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. use

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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