Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λέγω

Non-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέγω

Structure: λέγ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to gather, pick up, picking out stones for building, to gather for oneself
  2. to choose for oneself, pick out, to be chosen
  3. to count, tell, reckon up, I reckoned myself, he told him over, I was counted
  4. to count, count, to count
  5. to recount, tell over, tell the tale

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λέγω λέγεις λέγει
Dual λέγετον λέγετον
Plural λέγομεν λέγετε λέγουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular λέγω λέγῃς λέγῃ
Dual λέγητον λέγητον
Plural λέγωμεν λέγητε λέγωσιν*
OptativeSingular λέγοιμι λέγοις λέγοι
Dual λέγοιτον λεγοίτην
Plural λέγοιμεν λέγοιτε λέγοιεν
ImperativeSingular λέγε λεγέτω
Dual λέγετον λεγέτων
Plural λέγετε λεγόντων, λεγέτωσαν
Infinitive λέγειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λεγων λεγοντος λεγουσα λεγουσης λεγον λεγοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λέγομαι λέγει, λέγῃ λέγεται
Dual λέγεσθον λέγεσθον
Plural λεγόμεθα λέγεσθε λέγονται
SubjunctiveSingular λέγωμαι λέγῃ λέγηται
Dual λέγησθον λέγησθον
Plural λεγώμεθα λέγησθε λέγωνται
OptativeSingular λεγοίμην λέγοιο λέγοιτο
Dual λέγοισθον λεγοίσθην
Plural λεγοίμεθα λέγοισθε λέγοιντο
ImperativeSingular λέγου λεγέσθω
Dual λέγεσθον λεγέσθων
Plural λέγεσθε λεγέσθων, λεγέσθωσαν
Infinitive λέγεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λεγομενος λεγομενου λεγομενη λεγομενης λεγομενον λεγομενου

Imperfect tense

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.

Examples

  • τί γὰρ ἄν τισ ἢ τὸν Σωκράτην λέγοι τὸν ἀδίκωσ πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ διαβεβλημένον ὡσ ἀσεβῆ καὶ ἐπίβουλον; (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 29:1)
  • καίτοι λέγοι τισ ἄν, ὡσ μετὰ τοῦ σαφοῦσ ἐξεταζόμενον ἡδὺ φαίνεται τὸ βραχύ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 17:3)
  • πρῶτον μὲν εἰ ἐπίσταιτο τοὺσ τῶν ἄλλων χαρακτῆρασ, ἔπειτα τοὺσ μὲν Λυσίου παραπλησίουσ λόγουσ τούτῳ προσφέροι, τοὺσ δ’ Ὑπερείδου δόξαντασ εἶναί τισι Δεινάρχου λέγοι μακρὰ ταῖσ ἐπιγραφαῖσ τῶν βυβλίων χαίρειν εἰπών, τοὺσ δὲ τῷ Δημοσθενικῷ χαρακτῆρι προσεληλυθότασ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε τούτου τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ διαβεβαιοῖτο εἶναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 62)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν τοῦ προτέρου τί ἄν τισ καὶ λέγοι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 7 2:4)
  • ὁ δὲ φωνάσ τινασ ἀσήμουσ φθεγγόμενοσ, οἱαῖ γένοιντο ἂν Ἑβραίων ἢ Φοινίκων, ἐξέπληττε τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ οὐκ εἰδότασ ὅ τι καὶ λέγοι, πλὴν τοῦτο μόνον, ὅτι πᾶσιν ἐγκατεμίγνυ τὸν Ἀπόλλω καὶ τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 13:5)

Synonyms

  1. to gather

  2. to choose for oneself

  3. to count

  4. to recount

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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