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 ἐγένετο ἡνίκα εἶδε τὰ ἐνώτια καὶ τὰ ψέλλια ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶ τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὅτε ἤκουσε τὰ ρήματα Ρεβέκκασ τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ αὐτοῦ λεγούσησ. οὕτω λελάληκέ μοι ὁ ἄνθρωποσ, καὶ ἦλθε πρὸσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἑστηκότοσ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν καμήλων ἐπὶ τῆσ πηγῆς (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 24:30)
- ὅμωσ δέ, ἢν ἐθελήσητε ἀκοῦσαί μου λεγούσησ, θαρρῶ πολὺ δικαιότερα ταύτησ ἐρεῖν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 20:2)
- νὴ Δία, καὶ ὥσπερ γε ὁρῶν αὐτὴν οὕτω διατέθειμαι, ὁπόταν κατ’ ἐκεῖνό που ἀναγιγνώσκων γένωμαι, καὶ μονονουχὶ καὶ ἀκούω λεγούσησ αὐτῆσ ἃ πεποίηται λέγουσα, καὶ ὡσ ὥπλιζε τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ οἱά ἦν παραπέμπουσα αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν μάχην. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 10:9)
- ταῦτα ἔτι λεγούσησ αὐτῆσ οὐ περιμείνασ ἐγὼ τὸ τέλοσ τῶν λόγων ἀναστὰσ ἀπεφηνάμην, καὶ τὴν ἄμορφον ἐκείνην καὶ ἐργατικὴν ἀπολιπὼν μετέβαινον πρὸσ τὴν Παιδείαν μάλα γεγηθώσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπεί μοι καὶ εἰσ νοῦν ἦλθεν ἡ σκυτάλη καὶ ὅτι πληγὰσ εὐθὺσ οὐκ ὀλίγασ ἀρχομένῳ μοι χθὲσ ἐνετρίψατο. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 10:1)
- οὔπω ταύτησ ἤκουσα πολυπλοκωτέρασ γυναικὸσ οὐδὲ δεινότερον λεγούσησ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 11)
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)
