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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

  • βασιλεὺσ δέ τισ εὔχεται εἶναι. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 14:2)
  • ἕκαστοσ γοῦν τῶν γεγηρακότων καὶ σπεύδει καὶ εὔχεται καταλῦσαι τὸν βίον ἐπὶ τῆσ πατρίδοσ, ἵν’, ὅθεν ἤρξατο βιοῦν, ἐνταῦθα πάλιν καὶ τὸ σῶμα παρακατάθηται τῇ γῇ τῇ θρεψαμένῃ καὶ τῶν πατρῴων κοινωνήσῃ τάφων δεινὸν γὰρ ἑκάστῳ δοκεῖ ξενίασ ἁλίσκεσθαι καὶ μετὰ θάνατον, ἐν ἀλλοτρίᾳ κειμένῳ γῇ. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 9:3)
  • θύουσι δὲ οὐκ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ ἱρῷ, ἀλλ’ ἐπεὰν παραστήσῃ τῷ βωμῷ τὸ ἱρήιον, ἐπισπείσασ αὖτισ ἄγει ζῳὸν ἐσ τὰ οἰκεῖα, ἐλθὼν δὲ κατ’ ἑωυτὸν θύει τε καὶ εὔχεται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 57:1)
  • ποῖον δ’ εὔχεται τὸν ὕπατον θεῶν; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 110)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ δέκα Αἰάντασ εὔχεται γενέσθαι αὑτῷ οὔτε δέκα Ἀχιλλέασ· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 44:3)

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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