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εὔχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔχομαι εὔξομαι ηὐξάμην ηὖγμαι

Structure: εύ̓χ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: v. sub fin.

Sense

  1. to pray, offer prayers
  2. I pray for, wish for, long for
  3. to vow or promise to do
  4. to profess loudly, to boast, vaunt

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • νόμιμὸν ἐστιν ἀρχαῖον ἐν Κορίνθῳ, ὡσ καὶ Χαμαιλέων ὁ Ἡρακλεώτησ ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῷ περὶ Πινδάρου, ὅταν ἡ πόλισ εὔχηται περὶ μεγάλων τῇ Ἀφροδίτῃ, συμπαραλαμβάνεσθαι πρὸσ τὴν ἱκετείαν τὰσ ἑταίρασ ὡσ πλείστασ, καὶ ταύτασ προσεύχεσθαι τῇ θεῷ καὶ ὕστερον ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ παρεῖναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 32 1:2)
  • ὅταν εὔχηται, περὶ τούτων εὔχεται· (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 32:1)
  • ὅταν ἀνόητοσ ὢν καὶ ἔτι νέοσ εὔχηται, λέγεισ; (Plato, Laws, book 3 69:6)
  • καὶ ὅταν γε ὁ πατὴρ ὢν γέρων ἢ καὶ σφόδρα νεανίασ, μηδὲν τῶν καλῶν καὶ τῶν δικαίων γιγνώσκων, εὔχηται μάλα προθύμωσ ἐν παθήμασιν ἀδελφοῖσ ὢν τοῖσ γενομένοισ Θησεῖ πρὸσ τὸν δυστυχῶσ τελευτήσαντα Ἱππόλυτον, ὁ δὲ παῖσ γιγνώσκῃ, τότε, δοκεῖσ, παῖσ πατρὶ συνεύξεται; (Plato, Laws, book 3 69:7)

Synonyms

  1. to pray

  2. I pray for

  3. to vow or promise to do

  4. to profess loudly

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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