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.
- εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ πολέμων ὅμωσ τινὲσ νόμοι τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ἀνδράσι, καὶ τὸ νικᾶν οὐχ οὕτω διωκτέον, ὥστε μὴ φεύγειν τὰσ ἐκ κακῶν καὶ ἀσεβῶν ἔργων χάριτασ ἀρετῇ γὰρ οἰκείᾳ τὸν μέγαν στρατηγόν, οὐκ ἀλλοτρίᾳ θαρροῦντα κακίᾳ χρῆναι στρατεύειν, προσέταξε τοῖσ ὑπηρέταισ τοῦ μέν ἀνθρώπου καταρρηγνύναι τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ τὰσ χεῖρασ ὀπίσω περιάγειν, τοῖσ δὲ παισὶ διαδοῦναι ῥάβδουσ καὶ μάστιγασ, ὅπωσ κολάζοντεσ τὸν προδότην ἐλαύνωσιν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 10 4:1)
- οἱ δ’ ὥστ’ ἀμητῆρεσ ἐναντίοι ἀλλήλοισιν ὄγμον ἐλαύνωσιν ἀνδρὸσ μάκαροσ κατ’ ἄρουραν πυρῶν ἢ κριθῶν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:5)
- οἳ δ’, ὥσ τ’ ἀμητῆρεσ ἐναντίοι ἀλλήλοισιν ὄγμον ἐλαύνωσιν ἀνδρὸσ μάκαροσ κατ’ ἄρουραν πυρῶν ἢ κριθῶν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 7:1)
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)
