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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

  • πρῶτον μὲν θύοντα χρὴ αἰτεῖσθαι θεοὺσ ταῦτα διδόναι καὶ νοεῖν καὶ λέγειν καὶ πράττειν, ἀφ’ ὧν θεοῖσ μὲν κεχαρισμενώτατα ἄρξαισ ἄν, σαυτῷ δὲ καὶ φίλοισ καὶ τῇ πόλει προσφιλέστατα καὶ εὐκλεέστατα καὶ πολυωφελέστατα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 2:1)

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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