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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

  • ὦ μιαρέ, ὃν ηὔχου πολλάκισ ὑπὲρ γῆσ καταλιπεῖν; (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 10:3)
  • ηὔχου δὲ τοιάδ’, ὦ νεᾶνί, σοι ξένων σφάγια παρεῖναι· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 5:8)
  • ὦ χιλιόναυν στρατὸν ὁρμήσασ ἐσ γῆν Ἀσίαν, χαῖρ’, εὐτυχίᾳ δ’ αὐτὸσ ὁμιλεῖσ, θεόθεν πράξασ ἅπερ ηὔχου. (Euripides, episode, anapests2)
  • ‐ Εὔξαιο δ’ ἂν οὕτωσ στερχθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν σαυτοῦ, ὥστε διὰ τὴν ἄγαν αὐτῶν φιλοστοργίαν ἀεὶ μόνοσ ἀπολείπεσθαι ἐν ταῖσ νόσοισ, ἢ τούτου γ’ ἕνεκα μᾶλλον ἂν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν, εἰ δυνατὸν ἦν, φιλοστοργεῖσθαι ηὔχου, ὥστ’ ἀπολείπεσθαι ὑπ’ αὐτῶν; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 26:2)
  • οὐκοῦν ἄτοπον ὑπὲρ ὧν ἵνα σωθῶσι τότε ἤρω τὴν ἔχθραν, τούτουσ νῦν διὰ τῆσ ἔχθρασ διαφθεῖραι, καὶ τὰσ μὲν παρὰ τῆσ τύχησ συμφορὰσ ἀξιοῦν ἐπανορθοῦσθαι, αὐτὸν δ’ ἐξεπίτηδεσ πράττειν ἐξ ὧν ἀπολούμεθα καὶ περὶ ὧν τότε ηὔχου τοῖσ θεοῖσ, περὶ τούτων νῦν οὐ βούλεσθαι διαλεχθῆναι σεαυτῷ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:2)

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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