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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

  • τὸν ἕβδομον δὴ τόνδ’ ἐφ’ ἑβδόμαισ πύλαισ λέξω, τὸν αὐτοῦ σοῦ κασίγνητον, πόλει οἱάσ ἀρᾶται καὶ κατεύχεται τύχασ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode1)
  • ἑωυτῷ μὲν δὴ τῷ θύοντι ἰδίῃ μούνῳ οὔ οἱ ἐγγίνεται ἀρᾶσθαι ἀγαθά, ὁ δὲ τοῖσι πᾶσι Πέρσῃσι κατεύχεται εὖ γίνεσθαι καὶ τῷ βασιλέι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 132 3:1)
  • ἀπὸ ταύτησ γάρ σφι τῆσ μάχησ, Ἀθηναίων θυσίασ ἀναγόντων ἐσ τὰσ πανηγύριασ τὰσ ἐν τῇσι πεντετηρίσι γινομένασ, κατεύχεται ὁ κῆρυξ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἅμα τε Ἀθηναίοισι λέγων γίνεσθαι τὰ ἀγαθὰ καὶ Πλαταιεῦσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 111 3:1)
  • ὁ δὲ ἐν ἐλπίδι μὲν τῶν ὅλων γενόμενοσ, βουλόμενοσ δὲ τὴν ἀλήθειαν μαθεῖν, ἐπῄνει τε τῆσ εὐγενείασ αὐτὴν καὶ τῆσ χρηστότητοσ, ὅτι καὶ μετ’ οἰκείου πόνου τοῖσ δεομένοισ ἐπαρκεῖν οὐκ ἔφυγεν, ἐπυνθάνετό τε τίνων εἰή γονέων καὶ κατεύχεται αὐτοῖσ ὄνησιν τοιαύτησ παιδὸσ καί "νυμφεύσειαν, φησίν, ὡσ αὐτοῖσ ἐστι κεχαρισμένον, εἰσ οἶκον ἀνδρὸσ ἀγαθοῦ παῖδασ αὐτῷ τεξομένην γνησίουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 321:1)

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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