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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

  • ζωμὸν μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἄριστον ἡγοῦνται τὸν γλυκύτατον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πικρὰ καὶ δριμέα συμμιγνύουσιν εἰσ δὲ τὸ σῶμα πολλὰσ καὶ κατακόρουσ ἐμβάλλουσιν ἡδονάσ, τὰ μὲν ἀγνοοῦντεσ τὰ δ’ οὐ μνημονεύοντεσ ὅτι τοῖσ ὑγιεινοῖσ καὶ ὠφελίμοισ ἡ φύσισ ἡδονὴν ἄλυπον καὶ ἀμεταμέλητον προστίθησιν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 26 9:2)
  • τοὺσ δὲ φαύλουσ οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε ὁμονοεῖν πλὴν ἐπὶ μικρόν, καθάπερ καὶ φίλουσ εἶναι, πλεονεξίασ ἐφιεμένουσ ἐν τοῖσ ὠφελίμοισ, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ πόνοισ καὶ ταῖσ λειτουργίαισ ἐλλείποντασ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 69:2)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν φυομένων ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ τὰσ δυνάμεισ οἱ παῖδεσ πρόσθεν μὲν ἐμάνθανον, ὅπωσ τοῖσ μὲν ὠφελίμοισ χρῷντο, τῶν δὲ βλαβερῶν ἀπέχοιντο· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 21:1)

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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