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.
- ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὡσ τῷ ἐρῶντι, ὁ δ’ ὡσ τῷ μὴ δεῖ χαρίζεσθαι, ἐλεγέτην. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 255:3)
- πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ὑπὲρ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐσπουδαζέτην καὶ ἐλεγέτην, ὁ μὲν διὰ τῆσ ποιήσεωσ, ὁ δὲ καταλογάδην· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:2)
- τὼ δὲ Λάκωνε ἐλεγέτην ὅτι Λακεδαιμονίοισ δοκεῖ πολεμεῖν Τισσαφέρνει τῷ ὑμᾶσ ἀδικήσαντι· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 9:2)
- τὼ δὲ εἰσηγαγέτην καὶ οὕτωσ ἁπλῶσ ἀπεδειξάτην ὥστε ὁ εἰσελθὼν ἐξήγγειλε πάντα εἶναι ἀδόλωσ οἱᾶ́περ ἐλεγέτην. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 9:3)
- ὦ δαιμόνιε, φύλαττέ με εἰσ τὸ κατ’ ἀρχὰσ εἰρημένον ἀποβλέπων, τὸ περὶ τῶν Κρητικῶν νόμων ὡσ πρὸσ ἕν τι βλέποιεν, καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐλεγέτην αὐτὸ εἶναι σφὼ τὸ πρὸσ τὸν πόλεμον, ἐγὼ δὲ ὑπολαβὼν εἶπον ὡσ ὅτι μὲν εἰσ ἀρετήν ποι βλέποι τὰ τοιαῦτα νόμιμα κείμενα, καλῶσ ἔχοι, τὸ δὲ ὅτι πρὸσ μέροσ ἀλλ’ οὐ πρὸσ πᾶσαν σχεδόν, οὐ πάνυ συνεχώρουν· (Plato, Laws, book 4 10:1)
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)