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.
- β μηδὲν ψεῦδοσ ἀπὸ γλώσσησ βασιλεῖ λεγέσθω, καὶ οὐδὲν ψεῦδοσ ἀπὸ γλώσσησ αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ἐξέλθῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:24)
- λεγέσθω γάρ, ὡσ ἐμοὶ φαίνεται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 6 1:1)
- ἑλομένων δέ, μὴ μελλήσασ λέγε ὅττι κεν ἐπ’ ἀκαιρίμαν ^ γλῶτταν ἔλθῃ, μηδὲν ἐκείνων ἐπιμεληθείσ, ὡσ τὸ πρῶτον, ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ ἔστι πρῶτον, ἐρεῖσ ἐν καιρῷ προσήκοντι καὶ τὸ δεύτερον μετὰ τοῦτο καὶ τὸ τρίτον μετ’ ἐκεῖνο, ἀλλὰ τὸ πρῶτον ἐμπεσὸν πρῶτον λεγέσθω, καὶ ἢν οὕτω τύχῃ, περὶ τῷ μετώπῳ μὲν ἡ κνημίσ, περὶ τῇ κνήμῃ δὲ ἡ κόρυσ, πλὴν ἀλλ’ ἔπειγε καὶ σύνειρε καὶ μὴ σιώπα μόνον. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:30)
- "κἂν περὶ ὑβριστοῦ τινοσ ἢ μοιχοῦ λέγῃσ Ἀθήνησι, τὰ ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ καὶ Ἐκβατάνοισ λεγέσθω. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:31)
- κεἰ μὴ γὰρ ἔστιν ὁ θεὸσ οὗτοσ, ὡσ σὺ φῄσ, παρὰ σοὶ λεγέσθω· (Euripides, episode 13:9)
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)
