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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

  • πάλαι ταῦτα ηὐχόμην νυνὶ δὲ ὁρῶ τὸ βέλτιον. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 10:4)
  • ^ οἱο͂ν ἐκεῖνα πῶσ οἰεί κατὰ γῆσ δῦναι ηὐχόμην ἀκούων σου ἐπιδεικνυμένου, ὅτε χιτώνιον μὲν καὶ τὸ ἀνδρεῖον ᾤου λέγεσθαι, δουλάρια δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἄρρενασ τῶν ἀκολούθων ἀπεκάλεισ, ἃ τίσ οὐκ οἶδεν ὅτι χιτώνιον μὲν γυναικὸσ ἐσθήσ, δουλάρια δὲ τὰ θήλεα καλοῦσιν ; (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 25:2)
  • τούτων, ὦ ἑταῖρε, ἀναγινωσκομένων μεταξὺ ἱδρώσ τέ μοι περιεχεῖτο ὑπ’ αἰδοῦσ, καὶ τοῦτο δὴ τὸ τοῦ λόγου, χανεῖν μοι τὴν γῆν ηὐχόμην ὁρῶν τοὺσ παρόντασ γελῶντασ ἐφ’ ἑκάστῳ καὶ μάλιστα ὅσοι ᾔδεσαν τὸν Ἑτοιμοκλέα, πολιὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ σεμνὸν εἶναι δοκοῦντα. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 28:1)
  • ’προχειρισάμενοσ δὲ τὴν μαλάχην πολλὰ ηὐχόμην αὐτῇ διαφυγεῖν ἐκ τῶν παρόντων. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 46:6)
  • ἐπειδὴ δ’ οὐχ, ὡσ ἐβουλόμην τε καὶ τοῖσ θεοῖσ ηὐχόμην, τὰ πράγματα ὑμῖν κεχώρηκεν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ᾤμην, καὶ περιεστήκασιν αἱ χάριτεσ ὑμῖν εἰσ φθόνουσ καὶ μίση, τὸ μὲν ἐπιτιμᾶν τοῖσ ἡμαρτημένοισ ὑμῖν καὶ λυπεῖν ὑμᾶσ διὰ κενῆσ, ὃ ῥᾷστόν ἐστι καὶ πᾶσιν ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ ποιεῖν σύνηθεσ, οὐκ ἐν καιρῷ νυνὶ γενησόμενον ὁρῶν ἐάσω. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 48 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to pray

  2. I pray for

  3. to vow or promise to do

  4. to profess loudly

Related

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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