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.
- ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει Κύριοσ, ἐὰν γένηται ἔτι λεγομένη ἡ παραβολὴ αὕτη ἐν τῷ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 18:3)
- καὶ εἶπα. μηδαμῶσ Κύριε Κύριε. αὐτοὶ λέγουσι πρόσ με. οὐχὶ παραβολή ἐστι λεγομένη αὕτη̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 20:49)
- γίνεται δέ, ὥσπερ ἐν λόγοισ, οὕτω δὲ καὶ ἐν ὀρχήσει ἡ πρὸσ τῶν πολλῶν λεγομένη κακοζηλία ὑπερβαινόντων τὸ μέτρον τῆσ μιμήσεωσ καὶ πέρα τοῦ δέοντοσ ἐπιτεινόντων, καὶ εἰ μέγα τι δεῖξαι δέοι, ὑπερμέγεθεσ ἐπιδεικνυμένων, καὶ εἰ ἁπαλόν, καθ’ ὑπερβολὴν θηλυνομένων, καὶ τὰ ἀνδρώδη ἄχρι τοῦ ἀγρίου καὶ θηριώδουσ προαγόντων. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 82:1)
- ἐννεακαιδέκατον δ’ ἔτοσ ἔχων ἠρξάμην τε πολιτεύεσθαι τῇ Φαρισαίων αἱρέσει κατακολουθῶν, ἣ παραπλήσιόσ ἐστι τῇ παρ’ Ἕλλησιν Στωϊκῇ λεγομένῃ. (Flavius Josephus, 14:2)
- τοῦ δὲ πολέμου καὶ τῆσ στρατηγίασ αὑτοῦ τὸ μὲν τόλμησ ὀξύτητι, τὸ δὲ βουλεύμασι χρηστοῖσ, τὸ δὲ φίλων ἐκθύμοισ ὑπηρεσίαισ, τὸ δὲ τῷ παρὰ τὰ δεινὰ θαρρεῖν καὶ χρῆσθαι λογισμοῖσ ἀραρόσιν ὁρῶν διαπεπραγμένον, οὐκ ἔχω τῇ λεγομένῃ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εὐτυχίᾳ λαμπρὸν ἀποδοῦναι καὶ διάσημον ἔργον οἱο͂ν ἑτέρων στρατηγῶν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 12 1:2)
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)
