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.
- ὁπότε γοῦν ἐπὶ μέγαν βασιλέα ἤλαυνον οἱ ἅμα Κύρῳ τῷ Δαρείου Ἕλληνεσ, οἷσ καὶ Ξενοφῶν συνεστράτευεν, λέγει Ξενοφῶν, ὅτε τὰ πεδία τὰ Ἀραβίων ἐξήνυον, ἀγέλασ προφαίνεσθαι τῶν ὄνων τῶν ἀγρίων, καὶ ὑπὸ ἑνὸσ μὲν ἱππέωσ μήποτε ἁλῶναι ὄνον ἄγριον, διισταμένουσ δὲ ἄλλουσ ἐπ̓ ἄλλοισ ἐλαύνειν, τοὺσ δὲ πολλοῖσ ἀντίσχοντασ τελευτῶντασ ἤδη ἀπαγορεύειν ὑπὸ καμάτου· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 24 2:1)
- θείνοντε δ’ οὐρᾷ πωλικῆσ ῥινοῦ τρίχα ἤλαυνον, αἳ δ’ ἔρρεγκον ἐξ ἀντηρίδων θυμὸν πνέουσαι κἀνεχαίτιζον φόβῳ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:3)
- ἀναλαβόντεσ δὲ αὐτοὺσ ἐπὶ τὰσ ἀπήνασ ὀπίσω ἤλαυνον. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 35 1:1)
- ἄλλοι δὲ μετὰ τούτουσ ἐπὶ φελλῶν καθήμενοι ζεύξαντεσ δύο δελφῖνασ ἤλαυνόν τε καὶ ἡνιόχουν οἱ δὲ προϊόντεσ ἐπεσύροντο τοὺσ φελλούσ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 45:5)
- οὗτοι ἡμᾶσ οὔτε ἠδίκουν οὔτε ἔφευγον, ἀλλ’ ἤλαυνον ἀδεῶσ τε καὶ εἰρηνικῶσ τὸ εἶδοσ τοῦ ἡμετέρου πλοίου θαυμάζοντεσ καὶ πάντοθεν περισκοποῦντεσ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 45:6)
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)
