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.
- ἐγενήθη τὰ δάκρυά μου ἐμοὶ ἄρτοσ ἡμέρασ καὶ νυκτὸσ ἐν τῷ λέγεσθαί μοι καθ̓ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν. ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ Θεόσ σου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 41:4)
- καὶ εἰσήλθοσαν εἰσ τὰ ἔθνη, οὗ εἰσήλθοσαν ἐκεῖ, καὶ ἐβεβήλωσαν τὸ ὄνομά μου τὸ ἅγιον ἐν τῷ λέγεσθαι αὐτούσ. λαὸσ Κυρίου οὗτοι καὶ ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ αὐτοῦ ἐξεληλύθασι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 36:20)
- φθονοῦντεσ ἤδη καὶ ἀπιστοῦσιν οὐ καθ’ ἑνὸσ λέγεσθαι πεφύκασιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πολλῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 9 2:1)
- ἀπόχρη ταῦτα εἰρῆσθαι περὶ τούτων τῶν συγγραφέων, πολλῶν καὶ ἄλλων ἐνόντων λέγεσθαι, περὶ ὧν καὶ ἕτεροσ ἔσται καιρόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 21:2)
- Λυσίμαχοσ ἐκαλεῖτο, Βοιώτιοσ μέν, ὡσ ἐφαίνετο, τὸ γένοσ ἀνέκαθεν, ἀπὸ μέσησ δὲ ἀξιῶν λέγεσθαι τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ· (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 7:1)
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)
