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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

  • 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, ἀλλ̓ ἓν τοῦτο ηὔχετο, ὑγιαίνειν, ὡσ ἔστ̓ ἂν τοῦτ̓ 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

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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