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 ἂν λέγοιμεν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:1)
- εἰ δ’ ἐπὶτοῦτο, λέγοιμεν ἄν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 37 2:6)
- εὐφημίᾳ δὲ ὅταν τὰ δυσχερῆ μὴ παραλείποντεσ ἐπὶ τὸ εὐφημότερον ταῦτα ἐξηγησώμεθα, οἱο͂ν εἰ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον ἐπαινοῦντεσ τὴν τῆσ Ἑλένησ ἁρπαγὴν λέγοιμεν οὐκ ἀδίκημα οὐδὲ μοιχείαν οὐδὲ ἁμάρτημά τι περὶ τὸν Μενέλαον τὸν ξένον γενόμενον, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τοῦ Διὸσ ἐπεθύμησε κηδεστὴσ γενέσθαι, καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἑλένησ, ὡσ οὐχ ἥμαρτε καταλιποῦσα τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα καὶ τὸν οἶκον, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἔνδοξοσ γενέσθαι ἐσπούδαζε. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 11:10)
- τοῦτο δέ που ἀναμιμνῄσκεσθαι λέγοντεσ ὀρθῶσ ἂν λέγοιμεν; (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 330:2)
- εἰ οὖν λέγοιμεν ὅτι κάλλει τε καὶ μεγέθει καὶ γένει καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ φύσει τῆσ ψυχῆσ, ἡγήσαιτ’ ἂν ἡμᾶσ, ὦ Ἀλκιβιάδη, μαίνεσθαι πρὸσ τὰ παρὰ σφίσιν ἀποβλέψασα πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 125:2)
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)
