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εὔχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: euchomai

Principal Part: εὔχομαι εὔξομαι ηὐξάμην ηὖγμαι

Structure: εὔχ (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

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ηὐχόμην ηὔχου ηὔχετο
Dual ηὔχεσθον ηὐχέσθην
Plural ηὐχόμεθα ηὔχεσθε ηὔχοντο

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

  • ηὔχετο δὲ ὁ μιαρὸς πρὸς τὸν οὐκέτι αὐτὸν ἐλεήσοντα Δεσπότην, οὕτω λέγων (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:13)
  • οὗτος τοίνυν ἀεὶ θεοῖς εὐχόμενος καὶ θύων καὶ ἀνατιθεὶς οὐδεπώποτε ἢ νίκην ἢ βασιλείας ἀξίωμα μεῖζον ἢ εὔκλειαν ἢ πλούτου ὑπερβολὴν ᾔτησε παῤ αὐτῶν, ἀλλ᾿ ἓν τοῦτο ηὔχετο, ὑγιαίνειν, ὡς ἔστ᾿ ἂν τοῦτ᾿ ἔχῃ, ῥᾳδίως αὐτῷ τῶν ἄλλων προσγενησομένων. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 22:2)
  • οὕτως κἀκεῖνος οὐδὲν προειπών, ὡς ἐμέμνητό μου ὁ Πολέμων ἢ ἐπόθει ἢ ηὔχετο ζῶσαν καταλαβεῖν· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:9)
  • θεοὺς δέ τις τὸ πρὶν νομίζων οὐδαμοῦ τότ ηὔχετο λιταῖσι, γαῖαν οὐρανόν τε προσκυνῶν. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 6:8)
  • ἐκεῖνος γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὁ Εὐβουλίδης, ὁ τῷ Ἁγνίᾳ γένει ὢν ἐγγυτάτω, μάλιστα μὲν ηὔχετο τοῖς θεοῖς υἱὸν αὑτῷ γενέσθαι, ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ ἡ τουτουὶ μήτηρ τοῦ παιδὸς αὐτῷ ἐγένετο: (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. to pray

  2. I pray for

  3. to vow or promise to do

  4. to profess loudly

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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