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.
- ἀλλ’, οἴμοι τῆσ συμφορᾶσ, προσέτι καὶ μισεῖ φιλοῦντα καὶ ἀγαπῶντα ἐλαύνει καὶ εὐεργετοῦντα ἀδικεῖ καὶ ἀσπαζόμενον ἀποκηρύττει, καὶ τοὺσ φιλόπαιδασ νόμοισ ὡσ μισόπαιδασ κατ’ ἐμοῦ μεταχειρίζεται. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 18:11)
- οὐρανοῦ θ’ ὑπὸ μέσσαν ἐλαύνει χέρασ ἕδραν, Ἄτλαντοσ δόμον ἐλθών, ἀστρωπούσ τε κατέσχεν οἴ‐ κουσ εὐανορίᾳ θεῶν· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, ephymnion 21)
- Λοξίασ δὲ τὴν τύχην ἐσ τοῦτ’ ἐλαύνει, κοὐ λέληθεν, ὡσ δοκεῖ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 5:8)
- ἔχω τὰ τῆσ Διόσ τε λέκτρα Λήδασ θ’, ἃν ὑπὸ λαμπάδων κόροι λεύκιπποι ξυνομαίμονεσ ὤλβισαν ὤλβισαν τὸ πρόσθεν, ἐκ δόμων δὲ νοσφίσασ σ’ ἐμοῦ πρὸσ ἄλλαν ἐλαύνει θεὸσ συμφορὰν τᾶσδε κρείσσω. (Euripides, Helen, episode, lyric3)
- "ὁ δὲ ἐπὰν προίδηται ἁρπάσασ τὰ ὅπλα μάχεται πρὸ τοῦ ζεύγουσ ἐν ῥυθμῷ πρὸσ τὸν αὐλόν καὶ τέλοσ ὁ λῃστὴσ δήσασ τὸν ἄνδρα τὸ ζεῦγοσ ἀπάγει, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ὁ ζευγηλάτησ τὸν λῃστὴν εἶτα παρὰ τοὺσ βοῦσ δήσασ ὀπίσω τὼ χεῖρε δεδεμένον ἐλαύνει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 27 2:8)
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)
