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.
- τί γὰρ ἄν τισ ἢ τὸν Σωκράτην λέγοι τὸν ἀδίκωσ πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ διαβεβλημένον ὡσ ἀσεβῆ καὶ ἐπίβουλον; (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 29:1)
- καίτοι λέγοι τισ ἄν, ὡσ μετὰ τοῦ σαφοῦσ ἐξεταζόμενον ἡδὺ φαίνεται τὸ βραχύ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 17:3)
- πρῶτον μὲν εἰ ἐπίσταιτο τοὺσ τῶν ἄλλων χαρακτῆρασ, ἔπειτα τοὺσ μὲν Λυσίου παραπλησίουσ λόγουσ τούτῳ προσφέροι, τοὺσ δ’ Ὑπερείδου δόξαντασ εἶναί τισι Δεινάρχου λέγοι μακρὰ ταῖσ ἐπιγραφαῖσ τῶν βυβλίων χαίρειν εἰπών, τοὺσ δὲ τῷ Δημοσθενικῷ χαρακτῆρι προσεληλυθότασ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε τούτου τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ διαβεβαιοῖτο εἶναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 62)
- περὶ μὲν οὖν τοῦ προτέρου τί ἄν τισ καὶ λέγοι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 7 2:4)
- ὁ δὲ φωνάσ τινασ ἀσήμουσ φθεγγόμενοσ, οἱαῖ γένοιντο ἂν Ἑβραίων ἢ Φοινίκων, ἐξέπληττε τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ οὐκ εἰδότασ ὅ τι καὶ λέγοι, πλὴν τοῦτο μόνον, ὅτι πᾶσιν ἐγκατεμίγνυ τὸν Ἀπόλλω καὶ τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 13:5)
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)
