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.