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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

  • ταῦτα τοῦ Χάρωνοσ εἰπόντοσ, εὐχόμεθα τοῖσ θεοῖσ καὶ παρεκαλοῦμεν ἀλλήλουσ. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 29 8:2)
  • διὸ κατατυχεῖν εὐχόμεθα τῇ τῆσ πόλεωσ συστάσει ὧν ἡ τύχη κυρία κυρίαν γὰρ ὑπάρχειν τίθεμεν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 212:2)
  • ἵν’ οὖν τὸ λοιπὸν τοὺσ περὶ θεῶν γενέσεωσ ὀρθῶσ λέγωμεν λόγουσ, φάρμακον ἡμῖν αὐτὸν τελεώτατον καὶ ἄριστον φαρμάκων ἐπιστήμην εὐχόμεθα διδόναι, προσευξάμενοι δὲ παραδίδομεν κατὰ τὰσ ὁμολογίασ Κριτίᾳ τὸν ἑξῆσ λόγον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 3:2)
  • τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ γὰρ εὐχόμεθα προγόνουσ ἑκάτεροι, ὥστε οὐδὲν δεῖ τούτου χάριν οὔτε πλέον ἡμῶν ἔχειν τοὺσ ἑτέρουσ οὔτ’ ἔλαττον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 11 1:3)
  • "καὶ ὅσα μὴ παρ’ ἡμᾶσ ἐστιν, εὐχόμεθα τὸν θεὸν διδόναι, δρόσουσ μαλακὰσ καὶ εἰλήσεισ ἐν πνεύμασι μετρίοισ, ὡσ ἀεὶ τοῦ ἀπολείποντοσ ἀναπλήρωσιν ἡ φύσισ ἔχοι, διατηροῦσα τὴν κρᾶσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 9:8)

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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