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ἐπεύχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπεύχομαι ἐπεύξομαι

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + εύ̓χ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to pray or make a vow, to pray to, that . ., to pray for
  2. to imprecate, upon, to utter imprecations
  3. to glory over
  4. to boast that

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὸ κλεινὸν Ἄργοσ πατρίδ’ ἐμὴν ἐπεύχομαι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 2:20)
  • ἀξιοπιστίασ δὲ καὶ τὸ τοῖσ ὁρ́κοισ καὶ ταῖσ ἀραῖσ χρῆσθαι, οἱο͂ν καλῶ δὲ ἐναντίον ὑμῶν τοὺσ θεοὺσ πάντασ καὶ πάσασ ὅσοι τὴν χώραν ἔχουσι τὴν Ἀττικήν, καὶ τὸν Ἀπόλλω τὸν Πύθιον, ὃσ πατρῷόσ ἐστι τῇ πόλει, καὶ ἐπεύχομαι πᾶσι τούτοισ, εἰ μὲν ἀληθῆ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ εἴποιμι καὶ εἶπον καὶ τότ’ εὐθὺσ ἐν τῷ δήμῳ εὐτυχίαν μοι δοῦναι καὶ σωτηρίαν· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 4:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ χώρασ τοῖσ πολισσούχοισ θεοῖσ, πεδιονόμοισ τε κἀγορᾶσ ἐπισκόποισ, Δίρκησ τε πηγαῖσ, ὕδατί τ’ Ἰσμηνοῦ λέγω εὖ ξυντυχόντων καὶ πόλεωσ σεσωμένησ, μήλοισιν αἱμάσσοντασ ἑστίασ θεῶν, ταυροκτονοῦντασ θεοῖσιν, ὧδ’ ἐπεύχομαι θύσειν τροπαῖα, δαί̈ων δ’ ἐσθήματα, στέψω λάφυρα δουρίπληχθ’ ἁγνοῖσ δόμοισ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:1)
  • ἐπεύχομαι τῷδε μὲν εὐτυχεῖν, ἰὼ πρόμαχ’ ἐμῶν δόμων, τοῖσι δὲ δυστυχεῖν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 21)
  • εἰ θέμισ δ’, ἐπεύχομαι· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 5:12)

Synonyms

  1. to pray or make a vow

  2. to imprecate

  3. to glory over

  4. to boast that

Related

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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