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.
- σὺ γὰρ κατιδὼν τὸν βίον ἀδικίασ καὶ παρανομίασ μεστὸν ἅτε ἀμαθίᾳ καὶ ὕβρει ξυνόντα καὶ ταραττόμενον ὑπ’ αὐτῶν, κατελεήσασ τὸ ἀνθρώπειον ὑπὸ τῇ ἀγνοίᾳ ἐλαυνόμενον ἐμὲ κατέπεμψασ, ἐντειλάμενοσ ἐπιμεληθῆναι ὡσ παύσαιντο μὲν ἀδικοῦντεσ ἀλλήλουσ καὶ βιαζόμενοι καὶ ὅμοια τοῖσ θηρίοισ βιοῦντεσ, ἀναβλέψαντεσ δὲ πρὸσ τὴν ἀλήθειαν εἰρηνικώτερον ξυμπολιτεύοιντο. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 5:4)
- ἀμέτρωσ καὶ λειβόμενον, εἶτα πάλιν ἐξ ἀφροδισίων καὶ οἴνου διάλυτον καὶ μαλακὸν εἰσ ἀγορὰν ἢ αὐλὴν ἤ τινα πραγματείαν διαπύρου καὶ συντόνου δεομένην σπουδῆσ ἐλαυνόμενον. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 25 2:1)
- τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἰσχυρότατον ἐναποτίθεται τοῖσ πλησίον ἅπασιν, ἐκείνων δ’ αὖ πάλιν ἕκαστον εἰσ ἕτερ’ ἄττα τῶν ἀσθενεστέρων, εἶτ’ αὖθισ ἐκείνων ἕκαστον εἰσ ἄλλα καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον γίγνεται, μέχρι περ ἂν ἐξ ἁπάντων ἐλαυνόμενον τὸ περίττωμα καθ’ ἕν τι μείνῃ τῶν ἀσθενεστάτων· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1326)
- ὡσ δὲ πεισθέντεσ οἱ Μεγαρεῖσ ἄνδρασ ἐξέπεμψαν ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ καὶ κατεῖδεν ὁ Σόλων τὸ πλοῖον ἐλαυνόμενον ἀπὸ τῆσ νήσου, τὰσ μὲν γυναῖκασ ἐκποδὼν ἀπελθεῖν ἐκέλευσε, τῶν δὲ νεωτέρων τοὺσ μηδέπω γενειῶντασ ἐνδύμασι καὶ μίτραισ καὶ ὑποδήμασι τοῖσ ἐκείνων σκευασαμένουσ καὶ λαβόντασ ἐγχειρίδια κρυπτὰ παίζειν καὶ χορεύειν προσέταξε πρὸσ τῇ θαλάσσῃ, μέχρισ ἂν ἀποβῶσιν οἱ πολέμιοι καὶ γένηται τὸ πλοῖον ὑποχείριον. (Plutarch, , chapter 8 5:1)
- ὥστε ἡ μὲν βουλὴ ἀεὶ τὸ ταχὺ ἐλαυνόμενον θεάσεται, οἱ δὲ ἵπποι οὐκ ἀπεροῦσιν ἐν μέρει ἀναπαυόμενοι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 12:3)
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)
