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[edit] Ancient Greek
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *obʰelos from *h₃bʰel- (whence also ὀφείλω (opheílō)). Cognates include Old Armenian աւելի (aweli), “‘more’”), յաւելում (yawelum), “‘I add’”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- (Classical): IPA: [ópʰelos]
- (Koine): IPA: [ˈo̞pʰɛlo̞s]
- (Byzantine): IPA: [ˈoɸelos]
ὄφελος (genitive ὀφέλους) n, third declension; (ophelos)
- furtherance, advantage, help, good, benefit
- the best
- (+ dative) help against something
[edit] Inflection
This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. ὀφέλεσος), which was dropped early on in the history of Ancient Greek.
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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