Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κατεύχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατεύχομαι κατεύξομαι

Structure: κατ (Prefix) + εύ̓χ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to pray earnestly, to pray
  2. to make a prayer or vow
  3. to pray against, imprecate, on
  4. to boast that . .

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect 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

  • καὶ πρῶτα μὲν δείλαιοσ ἵλεῳ φρενί, κόσμῳ τε χαίρων καὶ στολῇ, κατηύχετο· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 4:7)
  • ὧν δὴ χάριν κατηύχετο τεῖσαι τοὺσ Ἀχαιοὺσ τὰ ἃ δάκρυα τοῖσ ἐκείνου βέλεσιν. (Plato, Republic, book 3 150:2)
  • Παραστᾶσα δὲ αὐτῷ Μιχάλη ἡ γυνὴ Σαούλου δὲ θυγάτηρ τά τε ἄλλα αὐτῷ κατηύχετο καὶ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ γενέσθαι ᾔτει πάνθ’ ὅσα παρασχεῖν αὐτῷ δυνατὸν εὐμενεῖ τυγχάνοντι, καὶ δὴ κατεμέμψατο, ὡσ ἀκοσμήσειεν ὀρχούμενοσ ὁ τηλικοῦτοσ βασιλεὺσ καὶ γυμνούμενοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ ὀρχήσεωσ καὶ [ἐν δούλοισ καὶ ἐν] θεραπαινίσιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 105:1)
  • ἀπήνεγκεν ὡσ αὑτόν, ᾧ τῇ πρότερον ἡμέρᾳ κατασπένδων ἐβουθύτει καὶ κατηύχετο, δεόμενοσ, ὅπερ εἰκόσ, ἵλεων αὑτῷ γενέσθαι καὶ εὐμενῆ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον. (Polybius, Histories, book 32, ii. prusiae bellum cum attalo 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. to pray earnestly

  2. to make a prayer or vow

  3. to boast that

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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