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εὐκταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐκταῖος εὐκταῖη εὐκταῖον

Structure: εὐκται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: eu)/xomai

Sense

  1. of or for prayer, votive, devoted, votive offerings, vows, prayers
  2. invoked by prayer
  3. prayed for

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative εὐκταῖος εὐκταίᾱ εὐκταῖον
Genitive εὐκταίου εὐκταίᾱς εὐκταίου
Dative εὐκταίῳ εὐκταίᾱͅ εὐκταίῳ
Accusative εὐκταῖον εὐκταίᾱν εὐκταῖον
Vocative εὐκταῖε εὐκταίᾱ εὐκταῖον
DualN/A/V εὐκταίω εὐκταίᾱ εὐκταίω
G/D εὐκταίοιν εὐκταίαιν εὐκταίοιν
PluralNominative εὐκταῖοι εὐκταῖαι εὐκταῖα
Genitive εὐκταίων εὐκταιῶν εὐκταίων
Dative εὐκταίοις εὐκταίαις εὐκταίοις
Accusative εὐκταίους εὐκταίᾱς εὐκταῖα
Vocative εὐκταῖοι εὐκταῖαι εὐκταῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εὐκταῖος εὐκταίου εὐκταιότερος εὐκταιοτέρου εὐκταιότατος εὐκταιοτάτου
Adverb εὐκταίως εὐκταιότερον εὐκταιότατα

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

  • Τοῦτο μὲν αὐτόν σε καλῶσ ἔχει ἐσκέφθαι ὅ τι σοι εὐκταῖον, εἰ μὴ καὶ μάντιν ἅμα ἐθέλεισ εἶναι τὸν ἄρχοντα, εἰδέναι τί σοι ἥδιον αἰτεῖν· (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:2)
  • οὐχὶ δ’ εὐκταῖον ἦν, εἰ ἐδύναντο οἱ ἄνθρωποι κατακηληθέντεσ καὶ ἐπᾳσθέντεσ ὑπὸ τῶν Στωικῶν ἀπονυστάζειν καὶ παρέχειν σοι καὶ τοῖσ ὁμοίοισ καρησομένουσ καὶ ἀμελχθησομένουσ ἑαυτούσ; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 12:1)
  • τῇ τε γὰρ βουλῇ κατὰ μνήμην τῶν γεγενημένων ἐν ταῖσ τῶν ἡγεμόνων μεταβολαῖσ συμφορῶν εὐκταῖον ἦν ἀπολαβεῖν ἡγεμόνα γήρωσ σεμνότητι καὶ πράξεων ἀκμῇ πολεμικῶν κεκοσμημένον, ᾧ τὴν ὑπεροχὴν πρὸσ μόνην ἠπίσταντο τὴν τῶν ἀρχομένων σωτηρίαν ἐσομένην. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 79:1)
  • ὅμωσ δὲ, οὐ γὰρ ἐκλειπτέον οὐδὲν εὐκταῖον, φασὶν, ἀλλὰ πᾶν ὁτιοῦν ὁπωσοῦν ἀποδιδόμενον κρεῖττον ἢ καθάπαξ ἐκλειφθὲν, πειραθῶμεν ἀμωσγέπωσ ἀφοσιώσασθαι πρὸσ τὸν θεόν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:1)
  • εὐκταῖόν ἐστι φρονίμη στρέβλωσισ; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 24 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. invoked by prayer

  2. prayed for

Related

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

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