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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “pray, vow, boast”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /êu̯.kʰos/ → /ˈeɸ.xos/ → /ˈef.xos/
Noun
εὖχος • (eûkhos) n (genitive εὔχους or εὔχεος); third declension
- the thing prayed for, object of prayer, prayer
- a boast, vaunt
- (later Greek) a vow, votive offering
Inflection
Further reading
- “εὖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “εὖχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εὖχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εὖχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “εὖχος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter