ὠφέλεια

See also: ωφέλεια

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel-, cognate with Old Armenian աւելի (aweli) [1][2][3] Cf. ὀφείλω (opheílō).

ὠφέλειᾰ • (ōphéleia) f (genitive ὠφελείᾱς); first declension

help, aid, succour (especially in war)
profit, advantage, benefit
1. source of gain or profit, service
2. (and especially) gain made in war, spoil, booty

First declension of ἡ ὠφέλειᾰ; τῆς ὠφελείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὠφέλειᾰ hē ōphéleia	τὼ ὠφελείᾱ tṑ ōpheleíā	αἱ ὠφέλειαι hai ōphéleiai
Genitive	τῆς ὠφελείᾱς tês ōpheleíās	τοῖν ὠφελείαιν toîn ōpheleíain	τῶν ὠφελειῶν tôn ōpheleiôn
Dative	τῇ ὠφελείᾳ têi ōpheleíāi	τοῖν ὠφελείαιν toîn ōpheleíain	ταῖς ὠφελείαις taîs ōpheleíais
Accusative	τὴν ὠφέλειᾰν tḕn ōphéleian	τὼ ὠφελείᾱ tṑ ōpheleíā	τᾱ̀ς ὠφελείᾱς tā̀s ōpheleíās
Vocative	ὠφέλειᾰ ōphéleia	ὠφελείᾱ ōpheleíā	ὠφέλειαι ōphéleiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“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

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