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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

  • αἱ μὲν τῶν φίλων χάριτεσ ἐπὶ καλῷ τινι καὶ ὠφελίμῳ τὸ εὐφραῖνον ὥσπερ ἐπανθοῦν ἔχουσιν, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ παιδιᾷ καὶ τραπέζῃ καὶ οἴνῳ καὶ νὴ Δία γέλωτι καὶ φλυάρῳ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ οἱο͂ν ἡδύσμασιν ἐχρήσαντο τῶν καλῶν καὶ σπουδαίων. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 11 4:1)
  • εἰ ἄρα ἀρετὴ τῶν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τί ἐστιν καὶ ἀναγκαῖον αὐτῷ ὠφελίμῳ εἶναι, φρόνησιν αὐτὸ δεῖ εἶναι, ἐπειδήπερ πάντα τὰ κατὰ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτὰ μὲν καθ’ αὑτὰ οὔτε ὠφέλιμα οὔτε βλαβερά ἐστιν, προσγενομένησ δὲ φρονήσεωσ ἢ ἀφροσύνησ βλαβερά τε καὶ ὠφέλιμα γίγνεται. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 113:3)
  • Ἀθηναίοισ δὲ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ καὶ ἄλλα ἐστὶν οὐκ ἐσ ἅπαντασ ἐπίσημα καὶ Ἐλέου βωμόσ, ᾧ μάλιστα θεῶν ἐσ ἀνθρώπινον βίον καὶ μεταβολὰσ πραγμάτων ὄντι ὠφελίμῳ μόνοι τιμὰσ Ἑλλήνων νέμουσιν Ἀθηναῖοι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 2:1)

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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