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ὄφελος
ὄφελος
See also: όφελος
Ancient Greek
Noun
ὄφελος • (óphelos) n (genitive ὀφέλους); third declension
Inflection
Third declension of ὄφελος, ὀφέλεος (uncontracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ὄφελος | τὼ ὀφέλεε | τὰ ὀφέλεᾰ |
| Genitive | τοῦ ὀφέλεος | τοῖν ὀφελέοιν | τῶν ὀφελέων |
| Dative | τῷ ὀφέλεϊ | τοῖν ὀφελέοιν | τοῖς ὀφέλεσσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τὸ ὄφελος | τὼ ὀφέλεε | τὰ ὀφέλεᾰ |
| Vocative | ὄφελος | ὀφέλεε | ὀφέλεᾰ |
| Notes: | This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. *ὀφέλεσος), which was dropped early in the history of Ancient Greek. |
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Third declension of ὄφελος, ὀφέλους (contracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ὄφελος | τὼ ὀφέλει | τὰ ὀφέλη |
| Genitive | τοῦ ὀφέλους | τοῖν ὀφελοῖν | τῶν ὀφελῶν |
| Dative | τῷ ὀφέλει | τοῖν ὀφελοῖν | τοῖς ὀφέλεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τὸ ὄφελος | τὼ ὀφέλει | τὰ ὀφέλη |
| Vocative | ὄφελος | ὀφέλει | ὀφέλη |
| Notes: | The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm. |
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References
- ὄφελος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄφελος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄφελος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ὄφελος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «ὄφελος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G3786”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- advantage idem, page 14.
- benefit idem, page 74.
- boon idem, page 89.
- expediency idem, page 293.
- gain idem, page 352.
- good idem, page 366.
- helpfulness idem, page 396.
- interest idem, page 450.
- profit idem, page 653.
- use idem, page 940.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill