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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

  • πόλεισ μὲν γὰρ παραβαλεῖν πειρωμένῳ προσήκει μέγεθοσ ἐξετάζειν καὶ κάλλοσ καὶ τὴν τῶν ὠνίων ἀφθονίαν ὅπου δ’ αἱρ́εσίσ ἐστι πόλεων, οὐδεὶσ ἂν ἕλοιτο τὴν λαμπροτέραν ἐάσασ τὴν πατρίδα, ἀλλ’ εὔξαιτο μὲν ἂν εἶναι καὶ τὴν πατρίδα ταῖσ εὐδαίμοσι παραπλησίαν, ἕλοιτο δ’ ἂν τὴν ὁποιανοῦν. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 2:3)
  • κοινὸσ γάρ τισ ἀγὼν ἄλλοσ ἅπασι τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ πολίταισ πρόκειται καὶ στέφανοσ οὐ πίτυοσ οὐδὲ κοτίνου ἢ σελίνων, ἀλλ’ ὃσ ἐν αὑτῷ συλλαβὼν ἔχει τὴν ἀνθρώπου εὐδαιμονίαν, οἱο͂ν ἐλευθερίαν λέγω αὐτοῦ τε ἑκάστου ἰδίᾳ καὶ κοινῇ τῆσ πατρίδοσ καὶ πλοῦτον καὶ δόξαν καὶ ἑορτῶν πατρίων ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ οἰκείων σωτηρίαν, καὶ συνόλωσ τὰ κάλλιστα ὧν ἄν τισ εὔξαιτο γενέσθαι οἱ παρὰ τῶν θεῶν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 15:3)
  • πεμφθεῖσα γὰρ ὡσ ἔρια ὠνήσαιτό μοι ἐπὶ τὴν γαστέρα καὶ εὔξαιτο τῇ Λοχείᾳ ὡσ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, Λεσβίαν ἔφη ἐντυχοῦσαν αὐτῇ . (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)
  • τίσ δ̓ οὐκ ἄν εὔξαιτο εἰσ τὸ μήκιστον διαβιῶναι αὐτὸν ἀπολαύοντα τῶν ἀγαθῶν; (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 3:6)
  • τοῦ γάρ τισ ἄλλου πρὸσ θεῶν ἂν οὕνεκα εὔξαιτο πλουτεῖν εὐπορεῖν τε χρημάτων τοῦ δύνασθαι παραβοηθεῖν τοῖσ φίλοισ σπείρειν τε καρπὸν Χάριτοσ, ἡδίστησ θεῶν τοῦ μὲν πιεῖν γὰρ καὶ φαγεῖν τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ἔχομεν ὁμοίασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 5 2:2)

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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