Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • μορφὴν δ’ ἀλλάξαντα πατὴρ φίλον υἱὸν ἀείρασ σφάζει ἐπευχόμενοσ μέγα νήπιοσ, ἀλλ’ εἰδότεσ καὶ γιγνώσκοντεσ αὐτοὶ τὰ αὑτῶν τέκνα καθιέρευον, οἱ δ’ ἄτεκνοι παρὰ τῶν πενήτων ὠνούμενοι παιδία κατέσφαζον καθάπερ ἄρνασ ἢ νεοσσούσ, παρειστήκει δ’ ἡ μήτηρ ἄτεγκτοσ καὶ ἀστένακτοσ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 13 4:1)
  • ὣσ φάτ’ ἐπευχόμενοσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 22:1)
  • σοὶ γὰρ ἐπευχόμενοσ τοῦτ’ ἐτέλεσσε γρόφων. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , mixed meters78)
  • ὡσ δέ περ ἐξ ἀγαθῶν ἔλαβεσ κακόν, ὣσ δὲ καὶ αὖτισ ἐκδῦναι πειρῶ θεοῖσιν ἐπευχόμενοσ, μηδὲ λίην ἐπίφαινε· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389192)
  • Ἐγγύθεν αὐλητῆροσ ἀείσομαι ὧδε καταστὰσ δεξιόσ, ἀθανάτοισ θ εοῖσιν ἐπευχόμενοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389526)

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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