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|Definition=poet. aor. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[pray for]], c. acc. θεσσάμενος γενεήν <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 201</span>; γλυκερὸν νόστον <span class="bibl">Archil.11</span>; παίδων γένος <span class="bibl">A.R.1.824</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Euph. 136</span>: c. inf., <b class="b3">τάν ποτ' εὔανδρον [εἶναι]… θέσσαντο</b> [[prayed that]] this land might be... <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>5.10</span> (Hsch. also has <b class="b3">θέσσεσθαι, θεσσόμενος, θήσω, θησόμενοι, θησάμενοι</b>):—hence Adj. θεστός, only in compds. [[ἀπόθεστος]], [[πολύθεστος]] (q.v.), Boeot. pr. n. [[Θεόφειστος]], Ion. [[Ἐρμόθεστος]]. (Perh. <b class="b2">gu̯hedh-</b>, cf. [[πόθος]] (fr. [[φόθος]]), OIr. <b class="b2">-guidiu</b>, Welsh [[gweddïo]] 'pray', Lith. [[gedėti]] 'mourn'; [[θήσω]], [[θησόμενοι]], [[θησάμενοι]] seem to be analogical formations.)</span>