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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

  • εἰσ δὲ τὴν γῆν, ἣν αὐτοὶ εὔχονται ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ αὐτῶν, οὐ μὴ ἀποστρέψωσιν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 22:27)
  • ἃ μὲν γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ θυσίαισ οἱ μάταιοι πράττουσι καὶ ταῖσ ἑορταῖσ καὶ προσόδοισ τῶν θεῶν καὶ ἃ αἰτοῦσι καὶ ἃ εὔχονται καὶ ἃ γιγνώσκουσι περὶ αὐτῶν, οὐκ οἶδα εἴ τισ οὕτωσ κατηφήσ ἐστι καὶ λελυπημένοσ ὅστισ οὐ γελάσεται τὴν ἀβελτερίαν· (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 1:1)
  • καὶ τοῖσ, οἳ γλαυκὴν δυσπέμφελον ἐργάζονται, εὔχονται δ’ Ἑκάτῃ καὶ ἐρικτύπῳ Ἐννοσιγαίῳ, ῥηιδίωσ ἄγρην κυδρὴ θεὸσ ὤπασε πολλήν, ῥεῖα δ’ ἀφείλετο φαινομένην, ἐθέλουσά γε θυμῷ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:18)
  • τοῦτο ἐξεπολέμωσεν αὐτούσ, τό τε ἔναγχοσ ἐνθένδε ἦν μὲν ἡ τοῦ ἔτουσ ἀρχή, μᾶλλον δὲ ἡ ἀπὸ τῆσ μεγάλησ νουμηνίασ τρίτη, ἐν ᾗ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι κατά τι ἀρχαῖον εὔχονταί τε αὐτοὶ ὑπὲρ ἅπαντοσ τοῦ ἔτουσ εὐχάσ τινασ καὶ θύουσι, Νομᾶ ^ τοῦ βασιλέωσ καταστησαμένου τὰσ ἱερουργίασ αὐτοῖσ, καὶ πεπιστεύκασιν τοὺσ θεοὺσ ἐν ἐκείνῃ μάλιστα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ χρηματίζειν τοῖσ εὐχομένοισ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 5:15)
  • καὶ νὴ Δί’ εὔχονταί γε πλουτεῖν ἄντικρυσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 3:30)

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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