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προσεύχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσεύχομαι προσεύξομαι

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

Sense

  1. to pray, vow
  2. (with accusative)
  3. (absolute) to offer prayers, worship

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

  • "ἐπανελθόντα δὲ τὸν Δημήτριον ἀπὸ τῆσ Λευκάδοσ καὶ Κερκύρασ εἰσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐδέχοντο οὐ μόνον θυμιῶντεσ καὶ στεφανοῦντεσ καὶ οἰνοχοοῦντεσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσοδιακοὶ χοροὶ καὶ ἰθύφαλλοι μετ’ ὀρχήσεωσ καὶ ᾠδῆσ ἀπήντων αὐτῷ καὶ ἐφιστάμενοι κατὰ τοὺσ ὄχλουσ ᾖδον ὀρχούμενοι καὶ ἐπᾴδοντεσ ὡσ εἰή μόνοσ θεὸσ ἀληθινόσ, οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι καθεύδουσιν ἢ ἀποδημοῦσιν ἢ οὐκ εἰσίν, γεγονὼσ δ’ εἰή ἐκ Ποσειδῶνοσ καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ, τῷ δὲ κάλλει διάφοροσ καὶ τῇ πρὸσ πάντασ φιλανθρωπίᾳ κοινόσ, δεόμενοι δὲ αὐτοῦ ἱκέτευον, φησί, καὶ προσηύχοντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 62 3:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ διέβησαν, προσηύχοντο αὖθισ θεοῖσ τοῖσ Μηδίαν γῆν κατέχουσιν ἵλεωσ καὶ εὐμενεῖσ δέχεσθαι αὐτούσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 2:3)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν τειχῶν ὅτε μὲν ἴδοιεν τοὺσ ἰδίουσ εὐημεροῦντασ, ἐπαιάνιζον, ὅτε δ’ ἐλαττουμένουσ, ἔστενον καὶ μετὰ δακρύων τοῖσ θεοῖσ προσηύχοντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 13 30:1)

Synonyms

  1. to pray

  2. to offer prayers

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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