προσεύχομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πρός (prós, “to”) + εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to pray, vow”).

Pronunciation

Verb

προσεύχομαι • (proseúkhomai)

1. to pray, vow
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 317
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 220D
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 136A, (compare Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.1.1)
   1. (with accusative)
      • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 958, (compare Euripides, The Trojan Women 887)
   2. (absolute) to offer prayers, worship
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.48
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 937
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1337
2. to pray for a thing
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.2.22

Inflection

References

• “προσεύχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “προσεύχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• προσεύχομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4336 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek προσεύχομαι. Morphologically, προσ- (“towards”) + εύχομαι (“wish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proˈsef.xo.me/
• Hyphenation: προ‧σεύ‧χο‧μαι
• Old Hyphenation: προσ‧εύ‧χο‧μαι

Verb

προσεύχομαι • (proséfchomai) deponent (past προσευχήθηκα)

1. to pray

Conjugation

Derived terms

• προσευχόμενος (prosefchómenos, present participle)

Related terms

• προσευχή f (prosefchí, “prayer”)
• προσευχητάριο n (prosefchitário), προσευχητάρι n (prosefchitári, “book with prayers”) (ecclesiastic)
• and see: εύχομαι (éfchomai, “I wish”), ευχή f (efchí, “the wish”)