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.
- "τοῦ σώματοσ, ὅσον αἵματι πρόφασιν ῥυῆναι, ἀλλὰ γυμνὰ παρέχουσα τοῖσ βέλεσι τὰ καίρια, καὶ δι’ ὀστέων ἐλαύνουσα τὰσ πληγάσ, καὶ περιτρέχουσα κύκλῳ τὸ σῶμα, καὶ πολιορκοῦσα τὰσ ὄψεισ, τὰσ βάσεισ, ἐμποδίζουσα τὰσ διώξεισ, περισπῶσα τὰσ νίκασ, ἀνατρέπουσα τὰσ ἐλπίδασ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 10 1:3)
- "οὐχ ὥσπερ ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ πρὸ τοῦ Μενελάου τὸ βέλοσ εἰσ τὰ καρτερώτατα τῶν ὅπλων ὑπάγουσα, θώρακι καὶ μίτρᾳ καὶ ζωστῆρι τῆσ πληγῆσ τὸν τόνον ἀφεῖλε θιγούσησ τοῦ σώματοσ, ὅσον αἵματι πρόφασιν ῥυῆναι, ἀλλὰ γυμνὰ παρέχουσα τοῖσ βέλεσι τὰ καίρια, καὶ δι’ ὀστέων έλαύνουσα τὰσ πληγάσ, καὶ περιτρέχουσα κύκλῳ τὸ σῶμα, καὶ πολιορκοῦσα τὰσ ὄψεισ, τὰσ βάσεισ, ἐμποδίζουσα τὰσ διώξεισ, περισπῶσα τὰσ νίκασ, ἀνατρέπουσα τὰσ ἐλπίδασ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 101)
- ἐλαύνουσα γὰρ ἡ ψυχρότησ τὸ ὕδωρ ποιεῖ βαρὺ καὶ σωματῶδεσ, ὡσ ἔστιν ἐν ταῖσ κλεψύδραισ καταμαθεῖν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 7 2:1)
- ἐπείργασται δὲ καὶ Ἀπόλλων σὺν Ἀρτέμιδι Ἀθηνᾶ τε καὶ Ἡρακλῆσ, καὶ ἤδη τοῦ βάθρου πρὸσ τῷ πέρατι Ἀμφιτρίτη καὶ Ποσειδῶν Σελήνη τε ἵππον ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἐλαύνουσα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 12:4)
- καὶ οὔπω λέγω τὴν νόσον τοσοῦτον πρᾶγμα, ἣ προσέκειτο ἐλαύνουσα καὶ τοὺσ μὲν ὅλωσ ἀπανηλώκει τῶν ἀνθρώπων, τοὺσ δ’ ἀχρήστουσ εἰσ τὰ παρόντα ἐπεποιήκει, ἣν καὶ χωρὶσ μάχησ καὶ πολέμου προσβολῆσ οὐχ ἕν τι τῶν ῥᾴστων ἦν ὑπενεγκεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 26:4)
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)
