λέγω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
λέγω
Structure:
λέγ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to gather, pick up, picking out stones for building, to gather for oneself
- to choose for oneself, pick out, to be chosen
- to count, tell, reckon up, I reckoned myself, he told him over, I was counted
- to count, count, to count
- to recount, tell over, tell the tale
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 ἔθυσαν κριὸν προβάτων καὶ παρέθηκαν ὄψα πλείονα. εἶπε δὲ Τωβίασ τῷ Ραφαήλ. Ἀζαρία ἀδελφέ, λάλησον ὑπὲρ ὧν ἔλεγεσ ἐν τῇ πορείᾳ, καὶ τελεσθήτω τὸ πρᾶγμα. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 7:9)
- καὶ γὰρ ὅτε συνελήφθησ μετὰ τῶν παίδων, εἱστήκεισ τὸν Ἐλεάζαρον ὁρῶσα βασανιζόμενον καὶ ἔλεγεσ τοῖσ παισὶν ἐν τῇ ἑβραί̈δι φωνῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 16:15)
- Ἀλλ̓, ὦ βέλτιστε, φαίην ἂν κἀγὼ πρὸσ αὐτόν, εἰκότωσ ἂν ταῦτα ἔλεγεσ, εἴ τισ ὅλωσ καιρὸσ ἦν ὑγιείασ μὴ δεόμενοσ, νῦν δὲ καὶ ἑώθεν καὶ μεσούσησ ἡμέρασ καὶ νύκτωρ ἀεὶ τὸ ὑγιαῖνον ἀναγκαῖον, καὶ μάλιστα τοῖσ ἄρχουσι καὶ πολλὰ πράττουσιν ὑμῖν, ὅσῳ καὶ πρὸσ τὰ πολλὰ δεῖσθε τοῦ σώματοσ· (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 23:4)
- τί δὲ τὸ ψήφισμα ἦν, ὅπερ ἐν ἀρχῇ ἔλεγεσ κεκυρῶσθαι κατὰ τῶν πλουσίων ; (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 19:2)
- εἰ λιμῷ ἐξεπολιόρκησα τὸν τύραννον τὴν ἀνάγκην τῆσ τελευτῆσ παρέχων, ἀπῄτεισ ἂν καὶ τότε ^ παρ’ ἐμοῦ αὐτόχειρα τὴν σφαγήν, ἢ ἐνδεῖν ἔλεγὲσ μοί τι πρὸσ τὸν νόμον, καὶ ταῦτα χαλεπώτερον τοῦ κακούργου πεφονευμένου ; (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 11:10)
Synonyms
-
to gather
- ἀναλέγω (to pick up, gather up, to pick up for oneself)
-
to choose for oneself
- ἀπολέγω (to pick out from, to pick out, choose)
- ἐκκρίνω (to choose or pick out, to single out)
- ἐκλέγω (to pick or single out, to choose)
- ἐπιλέγω (to choose, pick out, select)
- αἱρέω ( to take for oneself, choose)
-
to count
-
to recount
Derived
- ἀμφιλέγω (to dispute about, to dispute, question)
- ἀπολέγω (to pick out from, to pick out, choose)
- ἀπολέγω (to decline, refuse, to decline)
- διαλέγω (to pick out one from another, to pick out, to converse with)
- ἐγκαταλέγω (to build in, were built into, to count among)
- ἐκλέγω (to pick or single out, to choose, to pull out one's gray hairs)
- ἐπιλέγω (to choose, pick out, select)
- λέγω (Ι lay down, put to sleep)
- λέγω (to say, speak, say on)
- παρεκλέγω (to collect covertly, to embezzle the)
- προεκλέγω (to collect moneys not yet due)
- προλέγω (to choose before, prefer)
- προλέγω (to foretell, announce beforehand, to state publicly)
- προσκαταλέγω (to enrol besides or in addition to, to reckon as belonging to)
- προσλέγομαι (to lie beside, she lay beside or by, to speak to)
- συλλέγω (to collect, gather, to compile)
