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.
- εἰ γὰρ τοῖσ πάθεσι δουλωθέντεσ ἐμιαροφάγησαν, ἐλέγομεν ἂν τούτοισ αὐτοὺσ νενικῆσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 13:2)
- ἐστὶν δ’ ὃ λέγει τοιοῦτον ἕνα βούλεσθαι ἀριθμὸν εὑρεῖν, ᾧ ἑώσ τοῦ τελευταίου εἰσελθόντοσ ἐξ ἴσου πάντεσ ἕξουσιν ἤτοι μῆλα ἢ στεφάνουσ, φημὶ οὖν τὸν τῶν ἑξήκοντα ἀριθμὸν εἰσ ἓξ συμπότασ δύνασθαι τὴν ἰσότητα πληροῦν, οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ἐλέγομεν μὴ συνδειπνεῖν τῶν πέντε γε πλείουσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 103)
- οὐχ οὕτωσ ἐλέγομεν; (Lucian, 102:1)
- φόβοσ δ’ οὔτι μέτριοσ εἶχεν ἡμᾶσ ὁρῶντασ τὸν μὲν δῆμον ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ, αὐτοὶ δ’ ὄντεσ ἐν ἀπόρῳ, τί ποιήσομεν, καὶ τοὺσ νεωτεριστὰσ παύειν οὐ δυνάμενοι, προδήλου δ’ ἡμῖν τοῦ κινδύνου παρεστῶτοσ, συγκατανεύειν μὲν αὐτῶν ταῖσ γνώμαισ ἐλέγομεν, συνεβουλεύομεν δὲ μένειν ἐφ’ αὑτῶν, καὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἐπελθόντασ ἐᾶν, ἵνα τοῦ δικαίωσ ἀνταίρειν ὅπλα πίστιν εὑρ́ωνται. (Flavius Josephus, 27:1)
- αἱ μὴ τυχοῦσαι παιδαγωγίασ ὥσπερ ἐλέγομεν ὀρθῆσ μηδ’ ἀσκήσεωσ αἰσθήσεισ προεκτρέχουσαι καὶ συνεφελκόμεναι πολλάκισ εἰσ ἃ μὴ δεῖ καταβάλλουσι τὴν διάνοιαν. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 12 2:4)
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)