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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

  • "μήτε τὰ κατὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὀνείδη λεγόμενα διὰ τὴν δειλίαν ἐπὶ τοὺσ θεοὺσ ἀναφέρωμεν, μήτε οἱ νέοι ἄνοπλοι τοῖσ θεοῖσ εὔχωνται. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 5 1:1)
  • "μήτε τὰ κατὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὀνείδη λεγόμενα διὰ τὴν δειλίαν ἐπὶ τοὺσ θεοὺσ ἀναφέρωμεν, μήτε οἱ νέοι ἀόπλοι τοῖσ θεοῖσ εὔχωνται. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 51)
  • καὶ ὅταν γε οἱ ἄλλοι ἄνθρωποι τοῖσ θεοῖσ εὔχωνται πολυκαρπίαν, εἰκότωσ ἂν οὗτοσ πολυοψίαν εὔχοιτο. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 14 5:6)
  • καὶ συλλαβέσθαι δὲ πρὸσ τὸ ἔργον διετάξατο, κἀκ τοῦ φόρου τοῦ τῆσ χώρασ ἧσ ἐπετροπεύοντο τελεῖν τοῖσ Ιοὐδαίοισ εἰσ θυσίασ λόγον ταύρουσ καὶ κριοὺσ καὶ ἄρνασ καὶ ἐρίφουσ καὶ σεμίδαλιν καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ οἶνον καὶ τἆλλα, ὅσα ἂν οἱ ἱερεῖσ ὑπαγορεύσωσιν, εὔχωνται δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆσ σωτηρίασ τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ Περσῶν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 127:1)

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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