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.
- ἐὰν δὲ λέγητε, τί φαγόμεθα ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ ἑβδόμῳ τούτῳ, ἐὰν μὴ σπείρωμεν μηδὲ συναγάγωμεν τὰ γενήματα ἡμῶν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 25:20)
- μηδὲ γιγνώσκοισθέ μοι, οἳ τοὺσ φίλουσ βλάπτοντεσ οὐ φροντίζετε, ἢν τοῖσι πολλοῖσ πρὸσ χάριν λέγητέ τι. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:3)
- καὶ ὅταν ὑμεῖσ λέγητε σώματα εἶναι ἅπαντα, ὁ Πλάτων δὲ νομίζῃ καὶ ἀσώματόν τι ἐν τοῖσ οὖσιν εἶναι; (Lucian, 77:1)
- διά γ’ ὑμᾶσ, ἵνα τάσ τε μαρτυρίασ τὰσ ἡμετέρασ λίπῃ, καὶ νῦν ὑμεῖσ ὅ τι ἂν βούλησθε λέγητε κατ’ αὐτοῦ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 40:2)
- ἐπειδὴ δ’ ἀμφότερ’ αὐτῷ γέγονεν, οὐκ εἰδέναι φησὶ τί ἂν ποιῶν χαρίσαιτο, ἂν δ’ ὑμεῖσ λέγητε, ποιήσειν ὃ μήτ’ αἰσχύνην μήτ’ ἀδοξίαν αὐτῷ φέρει, εἰσ ταύτασ τὰσ προφάσεισ καταφεύγων, κἂν ἄρ’ εἴπητέ τι καὶ προαχθῆθ’ ὑμεῖσ ἐπαγγείλασθαι, ἀναχώρησιν ἑαυτῷ καταλείπων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 54:1)
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)
