ἐλαύνω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἐλαύνω
Structure:
ἐλαύν
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to drive, drive on, set in motion, to drive, to ride, to row, to go in a chariot, to drive, on, drove on, to travel, to ride, to march, to row
- to sail, to run
- to drive away
- to drive away, expel
- to drive, harass, shall persecute, to persecute, attack, harass
- to strike
- to drive or thrust, to go through
- to beat with, he made, of beaten
- to draw a line of, has its, carried down, to work one's way, to draw, plant, in line
- to prolong
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- οὐκέτι τὸν τοιοῦτον οὔτε στέγῃ τισ ἐδέχετο οὔτε πυρὸσ ἢ ὕδατοσ ἐκοινώνει, ἀλλ’ ἔδει γῆν πρὸ γῆσ ἐλαύνεσθαι ὡσ ἀσεβῆ καὶ ἄθεον καὶ Ἐπικούρειον, ἥπερ ἦν ἡ μεγίστη λοιδορία. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 46:2)
- οὗτοι γὰρ ἐλαύνεσθαι μὲν τὰ πρῶτα οὐκ ἀγαθοί, ἀλλὰ κἂν πάνυ καταφρονήσειασ ἰδὼν παραβάλλοντασ ἵππῳ Θεσσαλῷ ἢ Σικελῷ ἢ Πελοποννησίῳ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 23 2:2)
- καὶ πονηρῶν, οἱ δίφροι δὲ αὐτοῖσ ἐπιτήδειοί εἰσιν ἐσ τὸ ἐλαύνεσθαι κατὰ χωρίων παντοίων. (Arrian, chapter 19 4:1)
- ὁ δὲ Μανίλιοσ οὗτοσ εὔνοιαν εἶχε καὶ σπουδὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου, δοκῶν ἐλαύνεσθαι διὰ Πομπήϊον· (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 9 4:2)
- γεγονότων δὲ τῶν πρὸσ τὴν σύλληψιν ἑτοίμων ἦν μὲν ἐκκλησία τῶν πολιτῶν, ὁ δὲ Νικίασ μεταξύ τι λέγων καὶ συμβουλεύων πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ἐξαίφνησ ἀφῆκεν εἰσ τὴν γῆν τὸ σῶμα, καὶ μικρὸν διαλιπών, οἱο͂ν εἰκὸσ, ἡσυχίασ σὺν ἐκπλήξει γενομένησ, τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπάρασ καὶ περιενεγκὼν, ὑποτρόμῳ φωνῇ καὶ βαρείᾳ, κατὰ μικρὸν συντείνων καὶ παροξύνων τὸν ἦχον, ὡσ ἑώρα φρίκῃ καὶ σιωπῇ κατεχόμενον τὸ θέατρον, ἀπορρίψασ τὸ ἱμάτιον καὶ περιρρηξάμενοσ τὸν χιτωνίσκον, ἡμίγυμνοσ ἀναπηδήσασ ἔθεε πρὸσ τὴν ἔξοδον τοῦ θεάτρου, βοῶν ὑπὸ τῶν Ματέρων ἐλαύνεσθαι. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 20 5:1)
Synonyms
-
to sail
-
to drive away
- ἐξαναγκάζω (to drive away)
- παίω (I drive away)
- ἐκπλήσσω (to strike out of, drive away from, to drive away)
- ἀποστυφελίζω (to drive away by force from)
- σοβέω (to drive away, clear away)
- ὑπεξελαύνω (to drive away gradually)
- εἰσελαύνω (to drive in, driving in)
- προσβάλλω (do, drive)
- ἐξαμύνομαι (to ward off from oneself, drive away)
- ἀπελαύνω (to drive away, expel from, to drive away)
- νίσσομαι (to go, go away, to go to)
- ἀποχωρέω (to go from or away from)
- ἀπονίσσομαι (to go away)
-
to drive away
-
to drive
-
to strike
-
to drive or thrust
-
to beat with
- ἀποκρούω (to beat off from, to beat off from oneself, beat off)
-
to prolong
Derived
- ἀντελαύνω (to sail against)
- ἀπελαύνω (to drive away, expel from, to drive away)
- διελαύνω (to drive through or across, to thrust through, to thrust)
- διεξελαύνω (to drive, ride, march through)
- εἰσελαύνω (to drive in, driving in, to row or sail in)
- ἐνελαύνω (to drive in or into)
- ἐξελαύνω (to drive out from, to drive afield, to drive out or expel from)
- ἐπελαύνω (to drive upon, upon, to lay)
- κατελαύνω (to draw down)
- παρελαύνω (to drive by or past, to drive, past)
- παρεξελαύνω (to drive out past, to pass, to row past)
- περιελαύνω (to drive round, to push, round)
- προελαύνω (to ride on or forward, to ride before, was now far advanced)
- προεξελαύνω (to ride out before, to run out, before)
- προσελαύνω (to drive or chase to, to be driven or fixed to, to ride towards)
- συνελαύνω (to drive together, gnashed, together)
- συνεξελαύνω (to drive out along with or together)
- ὑπελαύνω (to ride up)
- ὑπεξελαύνω (to drive away gradually)
