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πολυωφελής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυωφελής πολυωφελές

Structure: πολυωφελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)/felos

Sense

  1. very useful, useful in many ways

Examples

  • τοῖσ δὲ κατὰ λόγον τὰσ ὀρέξεισ ποιουμένοισ καὶ πράττουσι πολυωφελὲσ ἂν εἰή τὸ περὶ τούτων εἰδέναι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 18:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ τὸ παμφόρον καὶ πολυωφελὲσ παρ’ ἡντινοῦν ἄλλην γῆν Ἰταλίαν ἔχειν πείθομαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 36 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. very useful

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

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