Sense

1. to profit, benefit, help, assist, you pleased
2. to have profit or advantage, derive benefit, have enjoyment or delight, to have advantage from, have enjoyment of, good will, have
3. felix, favoured by the gods
4. bless thee, may I, thrive, you'd be the better of, he'd be very nice

Examples

• ναί, φησίν, ὀνίνανται μέν, ἀλλ’ αὐτῷ μόνῳ τῷ λόγῳ τῆσ κενώσεωσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1370)
• οἳ δ’ ἂν τὰ ἔσχατα ἀδικήσωσι καὶ διὰ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀδικήματα ἀνίατοι γένωνται, ἐκ τούτων τὰ παραδείγματα γίγνεται, καὶ οὗτοι αὐτοὶ μὲν οὐκέτι ὀνίνανται οὐδέν, ἅτε ἀνίατοι ὄντεσ, ἄλλοι δὲ ὀνίνανται οἱ τούτουσ ὁρῶντεσ διὰ τὰσ ἁμαρτίασ τὰ μέγιστα καὶ ὀδυνηρότατα καὶ φοβερώτατα πάθη πάσχοντασ τὸν ἀεὶ χρόνον, ἀτεχνῶσ παραδείγματα ἀνηρτημένουσ ἐκεῖ ἐν Αἵδου ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ, τοῖσ ἀεὶ τῶν ἀδίκων ἀφικνουμένοισ θεάματα καὶ νουθετήματα. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 478:1)

Similar forms

• ὀνίνησιν (11)
• ὀνίνησι (6)
• ὀνίνης (1)

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