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βοηθ-ητικός

boethetikos

ready, able to help, serviceable, keep it off

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Where it lives

Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

βοηθ-ητικός · boēth-ētikos — LSJ

ready, able to help, serviceable, keep it off, promoting it

ready or able to help, serviceable, τινί Arist. Rh. 1374a24; τοῖς πένησι Plu. Sol. 29; τῶν δεομένων Diotog. ap. Stob. 4.7.62; πρός τι so as to keep it off, Arist. Pol. 1267a16; or towards promoting it, Id. HA 515b9: Comp. -ώτερον, τὸ ἄρρεν τοῦ θήλεος ib. 608b15: Sup. -ώτατος Iamb. VP 25.111.

In the wild

βοηθητικὸς · boēthētikos Aristotle, Politics 1267a (DIORISIS sentence 563)
βοηθητικὸν · boēthētikon Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
βοηθητικὸν · boēthētikon Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 36)
βοηθητική · boēthētikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2850)
βοηθητικὴ · boēthētikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2851)
βοηθητικὸς · boēthētikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2960)

Where it came from

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