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Gender Masculine
Usage Greek Mythology
Scripts Ὀφελέστης(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsOfelestis (modern Greek transcription)
Meaning & History
Derived from the Greek noun ὄφελος (ophelos) meaning "help, advantage" combined with the Attic Greek suffix -της (-tes), which forms nouns that represent a state of being.This was the name of two characters from Greek mythology, one of which was a Paeonian soldier who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.