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

• ὡσ γὰρ ὁ Ξενοφῶν φησι τοὺσ οἰκονομικοὺσ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν φίλων ὀνίνασθαι καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν, οὕτω τοὺσ ἐγρηγορότασ καὶ προσέχοντασ οὐ μόνον κατορθοῦντεσ ἀλλὰ καὶ διαμαρτάνοντεσ ὠφελοῦσιν οἱ λέγοντεσ· (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 6 3:1)
• ἄνθοσ δὲ χαλκοῦ καὶ λεπίδα καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν κεκαυμένον χαλκὸν καὶ χαμαίδρυν καὶ χαμαιλέοντα εἰσ ὕδωρ ἀναλύειν τὸ σῶμα καὶ τοὺσ ὑδερικοὺσ ὑπὸ τούτων οὐ καθαιρομένουσ ὀνίνασθαι ἀλλὰ κενουμένουσ συναυξόντων δηλαδὴ τὸ πάθοσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1366)
• ναί, φησίν, ὀνίνανται μέν, ἀλλ’ αὐτῷ μόνῳ τῷ λόγῳ τῆσ κενώσεωσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1370)
• ἀλλὰ σὺ ἡμᾶσ ὀνίνησ ἀεὶ νουθετῶν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 123:3)
• προσήκει δὲ παντὶ τῷ ἐν τιμωρίᾳ ὄντι, ὑπ’ ἄλλου ὀρθῶσ τιμωρουμένῳ, ἢ βελτίονι γίγνεσθαι καὶ ὀνίνασθαι ἢ παραδείγματι τοῖσ ἄλλοισ γίγνεσθαι, ἵνα ἄλλοι ὁρῶντεσ πάσχοντα ἃ ἂν πάσχῃ φοβούμενοι βελτίουσ γίγνωνται. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 477:1)

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.