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ὠφέλιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠφέλιμος

Structure: ὠφελιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. helping, useful, serviceable, profitable, advantageous, beneficial

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ συνίησ, οἶμαι, οἱο͂̀ν τί ἐστι μαστιγοῦσθαι γυμνὸν ἄνω τὰσ χεῖρασ ἐπαίροντα μηδενὸσ ἕνεκα ὠφελίμου ἢ αὐτῷ ἑκάστῳ ἢ κοινῇ τῇ πόλει. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 39:7)
  • ἔπειτα τοῦ κρίνειν ὄντοσ ὠφελίμου, τὸ γεννᾶν ἐμπόδιόν ἐστι. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 1, section 21)
  • καὶ ὁμοίωσ ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὠφελίμου, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἕξεων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 59:4)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ δύνανται ποιεῖν ἀγαθούσ, οὐδ’ ὠφελεῖν δύνανται, μηδενόσ γε τῶν ἄλλων ὄντοσ ἀγαθοῦ μηδ’ ὠφελίμου. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 31 3:1)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶν ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ἔλλειψισ τοῦ ὠφελίμου ἢ βλαβεροῦ παρὰ τὸ ἀνάλογον. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 83:2)

Synonyms

  1. helping

Related

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

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