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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel-, cognate with Old Armenian աւելի (aweli) [1][2][3] Cf. ὀφείλω (opheílō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔː.pʰé.leː.a/ → /oˈɸe.li.a/ → /oˈfe.li.a/
Noun
ὠφέλειᾰ • (ōphéleia) f (genitive ὠφελείᾱς); first declension
- help, aid, succour (especially in war)
- profit, advantage, benefit
- source of gain or profit, service
- (and especially) gain made in war, spoil, booty
Declension
Descendants
References
- “ὠφέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὠφέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὠφέλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G5622 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- advantage idem, page 14.
- aid idem, page 20.
- assistance idem, page 46.
- benefit idem, page 74.
- boon idem, page 89.
- co-operation idem, page 140.
- expediency idem, page 293.
- gain idem, page 352.
- good idem, page 366.
- help idem, page 395.
- helpfulness idem, page 396.
- interest idem, page 450.
- profit idem, page 653.
- service idem, page 755.
- ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 40–41
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ὠφέλεια”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian, Zagreb, page 11