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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

  • εἷσ εὐχόμενοσ καὶ εἷσ καταρώμενοσ. τίνοσ φωνῆσ εἰσακούσεται ὁ δεσπότησ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 34:24)
  • ὁ δὲ δεξάμενοσ τοὔνομα εὐχωλὴν ἐσ ἕκαστον ποιέεται, ἅμα δὲ εὐχόμενοσ κροτέει ποίημα χάλκεον, τὸ ἀείδει μέγα καὶ τρηχὺ κινεόμενον. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 29:8)
  • ἅμα δὲ εὐχόμενοσ αἰτέει τὴν μὲν παρεοῦσαν θυσίην δέκεσθαι, μέζω δὲ ἐσαῦτισ ὑπισχνέεται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 55:3)
  • ὧν πρῶτοσ καὶ κορυφαιότατοσ ἐγένετο Ῥουτιλιανόσ, ἀνὴρ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα καλὸσ καὶ ἀγαθὸσ καὶ ἐν πολλαῖσ τάξεσι Ῥωμαϊκαῖσ ἐξητασμένοσ, τὰ δὲ περὶ τοὺσ θεοὺσ πάνυ νοσῶν καὶ ἀλλόκοτα περὶ αὐτῶν πεπιστευκώσ, εἰ μόνον ἀληλιμμένον που λίθον ἢ ἐστεφανωμένον θεάσαιτο, προσπίπτων εὐθὺσ καὶ προσκυνῶν καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ παρεστὼσ καὶ εὐχόμενοσ καὶ τἀγαθὰ παρ’ αὐτοῦ αἰτῶν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 30:3)
  • οὗτοσ τοίνυν ἀεὶ θεοῖσ εὐχόμενοσ καὶ θύων καὶ ἀνατιθεὶσ οὐδεπώποτε ἢ νίκην ἢ βασιλείασ ἀξίωμα μεῖζον ἢ εὔκλειαν ἢ πλούτου ὑπερβολὴν ᾔτησε παῤ αὐτῶν, ἀλλ̓ ἓν τοῦτο ηὔχετο, ὑγιαίνειν, ὡσ ἔστ̓ ἂν τοῦτ̓ ἔχῃ, ῥᾳδίωσ αὐτῷ τῶν ἄλλων προσγενησομένων. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 22:2)

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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