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.
- καὶ γὰρ ἐκείνουσ ἤλαυνεν οὐ τοῖσ σώμασι πολεμῶν, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ βίουσ αὐτῶν καὶ τοὺσ τρόπουσ δεδιώσ, μὴ συναναχρωννύμενοι τοῖσ πολίταισ τρυφῆσ καὶ μαλακίασ καὶ πλεονεξίασ ἐντέκωσι ζῆλον· (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 10 3:1)
- ὁ δὲ ἡμέρασ μὲν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἁμάξησ ἦγεν αὐτήν, ἐπεὶ δὲ νὺξ κατέλαβεν, ἀναθέμενοσ ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον ‐ ἐτεθεραπεύκει δὲ ἕνα σφίσιν ἄλλον ἱππέα ἕπεσθαι ‐ ἀναπηδήσασ καὶ αὐτὸσ οὐκέτι παρὰ τὴν Μαιῶτιν ἤλαυνεν, ἀλλ’ ἀποτραπόμενοσ εἰσ τὴν μεσόγειαν ἐν δεξιᾷ λαβὼν τὰ Μιτραίων ὄρη, διαναπαύων μεταξὺ τὴν παῖδα, τριταῖοσ ἐτέλεσεν ἐκ Μαχλύων ἐσ Σκύθασ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 51:6)
- Κῦροσ ἀποκτείνασ Ἀρταγέρσην ἤλαυνεν εἰσ αὐτὸν βασιλέα τὸν ἵππον, καὶ αὐτὸσ εἰσ ἐκεῖνον, ἀμφότεροι σιωπῇ· (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 11 1:2)
- τοιγαροῦν οὐδεμία πόλισ αὐτὸν εἰάσε παρ’ αὑτῇ μετοικεῖν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον τῶν ἀνδροφόνων ἤλαυνεν, εἰκότωσ· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 185:1)
- δηχθέντοσ δὲ τοῦ μειρακίου τηλικοῦτον ἀνέκραγεν ἅνθρωποσ ὑπὲρ ἐκείνου καὶ οὕτωσ ἠγανάκτησεν ὥστε διὰ τὴν πρὸσ μίαν ἔχθραν ἁπάσασ ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ ἤλαυνεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 708)
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)