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ὠφέλεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠφέλεια ὠφελείᾱς

Structure: ὠφελει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: w)fele/w

Sense

  1. help, aid, succour (especially in war)
  2. profit, advantage, benefit, source of gain or profit, service
  3. (and especially) gain made in war, spoil, booty

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πλὴν Ἐπαμεινώνδαν μὲν ἔνιοι λέγουσιν ὀκνοῦντα γεῦσαι τῶν κατὰ θάλασσαν ὠφελειῶν τοὺσ πολίτασ, ὅπωσ αὐτῷ μὴ λάθωσιν ἀντὶ μονίμων ὁπλιτῶν, κατὰ Πλάτωνα, ναῦται γενόμενοι καὶ διαφθαρέντεσ, ἄπρακτον ἐκ τῆσ Ἀσίασ καὶ τῶν νήσων ἀπελθεῖν ἑκουσίωσ· (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 14 2:1)
  • διὰ φθόνου καὶ μίσουσ εἶχον τὰσ ὑπεροχὰσ καὶ μεταβολῆσ ἄσμενοι ἂν ἐλάβοντο, κοινωνοὺσ ποιεῖσθαι τῶν ὠφελειῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 14 5:1)
  • ἦν δέ τι μέροσ, ὃ τῶν ὠφελειῶν ἕνεκα τῶν ἐν ταῖσ στρατείαισ γινομένων πάντα κίνδυνον ἕτοιμον ἦν ὑπομένειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 43 7:1)
  • μοῖραν οὐκ ἐλαχίστην τῶν ὠφελειῶν τοῖσ στρατιώταισ χαριζόμενοσ, ὥστ’ ἐπικλύσαι πλούτῳ τὴν ἑκάστου πενίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 15, chapter 2 3:2)
  • τῶν οὖν ὠφελειῶν Κόνωνα εἰκὸσ πολλοστὸν μέροσ ἄλλῳ τινὶ μεταδιδόναι, ὥστ’ εἰ οἰόνται πολλὰ γενέσθαι Νικοφήμῳ, ὁμολογήσειαν <ἂν> τὰ Κόνωνοσ εἶναι πλεῖν ἢ δεκαπλάσια. (Lysias, Speeches, 45:2)

Synonyms

  1. help

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