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εὐκτικός

εὐκτικός

Ancient Greek

Adjective

εὐκτῐκός • ‎(euktikós) m ‎(feminine εὐκτῐκή, neuter εὐκτῐκόν); first/second declension

Related to wishing
1. (grammar) Used to express a wish: the forms of the optative mood
  - 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 248.6
  - 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, 1 541
2. expressing a prayer or vow
  - 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Rh.p. 333.S.
  1. (substantive) εὐκτῐκόν: utterance in the form of a prayer or wish
    - Stoic., 2 61

Inflection

Declension of εὐκτῐκός; εὐκτῐκή; εὐκτῐκόν

Number	Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	εὐκτῐκός	εὐκτῐκή	εὐκτῐκόν		εὐκτῐκώ	εὐκτῐκᾱ́	εὐκτῐκώ		εὐκτῐκοί	εὐκτῐκαί	εὐκτῐκᾰ́
Genitive	εὐκτῐκοῦ	εὐκτῐκῆς	εὐκτῐκοῦ		εὐκτῐκοῖν	εὐκτῐκαῖν	εὐκτῐκοῖν		εὐκτῐκῶν	εὐκτῐκῶν	εὐκτῐκῶν
Dative	εὐκτῐκῷ	εὐκτῐκῇ	εὐκτῐκῷ		εὐκτῐκοῖν	εὐκτῐκαῖν	εὐκτῐκοῖν		εὐκτῐκοῖς	εὐκτῐκαῖς	εὐκτῐκοῖς
Accusative	εὐκτῐκόν	εὐκτῐκήν	εὐκτῐκόν		εὐκτῐκώ	εὐκτῐκᾱ́	εὐκτῐκώ		εὐκτῐκούς	εὐκτῐκᾱ́ς	εὐκτῐκᾰ́
Vocative	εὐκτῐκέ	εὐκτῐκή	εὐκτῐκόν		εὐκτῐκώ	εὐκτῐκᾱ́	εὐκτῐκώ		εὐκτῐκοί	εὐκτῐκαί	εὐκτῐκᾰ́
Derived forms	Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
Derived forms	εὐκτῐκῶς				εὐκτῐκώτερος				εὐκτῐκώτᾰτος
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

εὐκτῐκή ‎(euktikḗ, “optative (mood)”)
εὐκτῐκῶς ‎(euktikôs, “in the optative”)

References

εὐκτικός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press