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.
- λεγέτωσαν πάντεσ καὶ ἐξομολογείσθωσαν αὐτῷ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 13:8)
- ἀγαλλιάσθωσαν καὶ εὐφρανθήτωσαν ἐπὶ σοὶ πάντεσ οἱ ζητοῦντέσ σε, ὁ Θεόσ, καὶ λεγέτωσαν διαπαντόσ. μεγαλυνθήτω ὁ Κύριοσ, οἱ ἀγαπῶντεσ τὸ σωτήριόν σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 69:5)
- ἔστω γὰρ ὁ μὲν ἀληθὴσ ἀριθμὸσ ἡμῖν εἴκοσιν, οἱο͂ν, κυάμουσ τισ εἴκοσιν ἐσ τὴν χεῖρα λαβών, ἐπικλεισάμενοσ ἐρωτάτω δέκα τινάσ, ὁπόσοι εἰσὶν οἱ κύαμοι ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, οἱ δὲ εἰκάζοντεσ ὁ μὲν ἑπτά, ὁ δὲ πέντε, ὁ δὲ τριάκοντα λεγέτωσαν, ὁ δέ τισ δέκα ἢ πεντεκαίδεκα, καὶ ὅλωσ ἄλλοσ ἄλλον τινὰ ἀριθμόν· (Lucian, 135:3)
- πρῶτον μὲν κρυπτώμεθα τὸν τοῦ βασιλέωσ θάνατον καὶ πρὸσ ἅπαντασ ἐξενεχθῆναι παρασκευάσωμεν, ὅτι πληγὴν οὐδεμίαν ἔχει καίριον, οἵ τ’ ἰατροὶ λεγέτωσαν ἐν ὀλίγαισ ἡμέραισ αὐτὸν ἀποδείξειν ὑγιῆ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 4 9:2)
- ἐπεὶ κατά γε τοῦτο λεγέτωσαν μηδὲν εἶναι χαλεπὸν μηδὲ τὸ τοὺσ ὀρφανοὺσ βλάπτειν τοὺσ παντάπασιν ἐρήμουσ, οἳ μήτε ἑαυτοῖσ ἀμύνειν δύνανται μήτε ἄλλον ἔχουσι τὸν κηδόμενον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 96:4)
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)
