utilis (useful; ☞ not conducibilis in good prose): saluber, salutaris (wholesome): efficax (efficacious): commodus, accommodatus, aptus (fit): to be serviceable to, adjuvare aliquem, adjutorem (feminine, adjutricem) esse alicui, adjumento esse alicui (general term, to help, support); auxiliari alicui, auxilio esse alicui (to aid or help one in need); sublevare aliquem or aliquid (PROP., to raise one up); consulere alicui (to consult the good of anybody). To be serviceable to a person in any matter, adjuvare aliquem or adjutorem (adjutricem) esse alicui in aliqua re or ad aliquid (general term, to assist): commodare alicui operam suam ad aliquid (to lend one’s help to anything): in re alicui non deesse (not to withdraw one’s aid): sublevare aliquid aliqua re (to lighten or render easy; e.g., fugam alicujus pecunia). He has been serviceable to me for that purpose, ejus opera consecutus sum, quod optabam