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.
- Καὶ συνήγαγον αὐτοὺσ ἐπὶ τὸν λεγόμενον Θερὰν ποταμόν, καὶ παρενεβάλομεν ἡμέρασ τρεῖσ αὐτόθι, καὶ κατέμαθον αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 8:41)
- αὐτὸσ δὲ ὁ Τιμόθεοσ συνέφυγεν εἰσ Γάζαρα λεγόμενον ὀχύρωμα, εὖ μάλα φρούριον, στρατηγοῦντοσ ἐκεῖ Χαιρέου. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:32)
- τὴν δὲ ἔφοδον μεταλαβὼν Ἰούδα, ὁ Τιμόθεοσ προσεξαπέστειλε τὰσ γυναῖκασ καὶ τὰ τέκνα καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἀποσκευὴν εἰσ τὸ λεγόμενον Καρνίον. ἦν γὰρ δυσπολιόρκητον καὶ δυσπρόσιτον τὸ χωρίον διὰ τὴν τῶν πάντων τῶν τόπων στενότητα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:21)
- ὕψοσ δὲ καὶ κάλλοσ καὶ μεγαλοπρέπειαν καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον ἰδίωσ πλάσμα ἱστορικὸν Ἡρόδοτοσ ἔχει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 4 3:4)
- Θεσσαλίασ με ἐξέβαλεν ὅλησ Θετταλίαν ἀξιοῦν λέγειν, καὶ πᾶσαν ἀποκέκλεικέ μοι τὴν θάλασσαν οὐδὲ τῶν ἐν κήποισ φεισάμενον σευτλίων, ὡσ τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον μηδὲ πάσσαλόν μοι καταλιπεῖν. (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 9:2)
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)
