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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “pray, wish”) + -η (-ē, suffix forming action nouns).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eu̯.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /eɸˈçi/ → /efˈçi/
Noun
εὐχή • (eukhḗ) f (genitive εὐχῆς); first declension
- prayer, wish
- vow
Inflection
Further reading
- “εὐχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “εὐχή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εὐχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εὐχή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2171 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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