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.
- τοῖσ δ’ ἅμα τεσσαρακονταετὴσ αἰζηὸσ ἕποιτο ἄρτον δειπνήσασ τετράτρυφον, ὀκτάβλωμον, ὃσ ἔργου μελετῶν ἰθεῖάν κ’ αὔλακ’ ἐλαύνοι, μηκέτι παπταίνων μεθ’ ὁμήλικασ, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ θυμὸν ἔχων· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:18)
- εἶπον δὲ καὶ ἡλίκοσ ὁ κίνδυνοσ, εἰ μὴ ὀρθὴν ἐλαύνοι· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:2)
- ἀλλ’ ὅτε τισ μοίρησ τριτάτησ πρὸσ μέτρον ἐλαύνοι πίνων ἀβλεμέωσ, τότε δ’ Ὕβριοσ αἶσα καὶ Ἄτησ γίνεται ἀργαλέα, κακὰ δ’ ἀνθρώποισιν ὀπάζει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 3 2:10)
- κατὰ τυμβωρύχων μηκέτι πηκτὸν ἄροτρον ἀνήρ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἐλαύνοι, μὴ πέλαγοσ πλώοι,. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 1761)
- εἰ δ̓ ἐλαύνοι ἐπ̓ αὐτόν, αὐτὸσ δὲ ἄνω ἰέναι τὴν ἐπὶ Παρθυαίουσ τε καὶ Ὑρκανίαν ἔστε ἐπὶ Βάκτρα, τήν τε χώραν φθείρων πᾶσαν καὶ ἄπορον ποιῶν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τὴν πρόσω ὁδόν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 19 1:4)
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)
