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.
- ὑπὸ τοιούτων θραυόμενοσ λογισμῶν, καὶ τὴν μακρὰν ἄλην αὐτοῦ καὶ φυγὰσ καὶ κινδύνουσ διὰ γῆσ καὶ θαλάττησ ἐλαυνομένου λαμβάνων πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν, εἰσ ἀπορίασ ἐνέπιπτε δεινὰσ καὶ νυκτερινὰ δείματα καὶ ταραχώδεισ ὀνείρουσ, ἀεί τινοσ ἀκούειν φθεγγομένου δοκῶν δειναὶ γάρ κοῖται καὶ ἀποιχομένοιο λέοντοσ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 45 3:1)
- "ἐμβάλλον ὥσπερ εἰσ πέλαγοσ οὐράνιον οὐ σταθεροῦ φωτὸσ οὐδ’ ἠρεμοῦντοσ ἀλλὰ μυρίοισ ἄστροισ ἐλαυνομένου μίξεισ τε παντοδαπὰσ καὶ μεταβολὰσ λαμβάνοντοσ, ἄλλην ἄλλοτε χρόαν ἐκματτόμενον ἀπὸ τῆσ σελήνησ ἐνταῦθ’ ἀποδίδωσιν; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 21 5:19)
- εἰ δὲ ὁδὸν βαδίζοι μὴ λίαν ἐπείγουσαν, ἐμάνθανεν ἅμα πορευόμενοσ ἢ τοξεύειν ἢ ἐπιβαίνειν ἁρ́ματοσ ἐλαυνομένου καὶ ἀποβαίνειν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 23 2:4)
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)
