helping, aiding, use, service, advantage
helping, aiding, hence, like ὠφέλεια, use, service, advantage, S. OC 401; σοὶ γὰρ ὠ. οὐκ ἔνι Id. El. 1031.
The corpus record
ὠφέλ-ησις
ophelesis · ἡ
helping, aiding
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Where it lives
- Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
- Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ὠφελήσεις · ōphelēseis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5106)
- ὠφελήσεις · ōphelēseis Plato, Epistles 322
- ὠφέλησις · ōphelēsis Sophocles, Electra 1031
- ὠφέλησις · ōphelēsis Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 401
- ὠφελήσῃ · ōphelēsēi Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.7.9 (DIORISIS sentence 1263)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.