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.
- τοῦτον δὲ διαγαγὼν Δοσίθεοσ ὁ Δριμύλου λεγόμενοσ, τὸ γένοσ Ἰουδαῖοσ, ὕστερον δὲ μεταβαλὼν τὰ νόμιμα καὶ τῶν πατρίων δογμάτων ἀπηλλοτριωμένοσ, ἄσημόν τινα κατέκλινεν ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ, ὃν συνέβη κομίσασθαι τὴν ἐκείνου κόλασιν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:3)
- τῷ γὰρ ἠθμῷ ἀντλεῖν τοῦτ’ ἔστιν, καὶ ὁ λεγόμενοσ τετρημένοσ πίθοσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 33:4)
- λέγω δὲ ἐπὶ κάλλουσ μὲν σωμάτων, τί δή ποτε τοῦτ’ ἐστίν, ὃ καλοῦμεν ὡρ́αν, ἐπὶ κινήσεωσ δὲ μελῶν καὶ πλοκῆσ φθόγγων, τί λέγεται τὸ εὐάρμοστον, ἐπὶ συμμετρίασ δὲ χρόνων, τίσ ἡ τάξισ καὶ τί τὸ εὔρυθμον, καὶ ἐπὶ παντὸσ δὲ συλλήβδην ἔργου τε καὶ πράγματοσ, τίσ ὁ λεγόμενοσ καιρὸσ καὶ ποῦ τὸ μέτριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 112)
- Σύ, ὦ βέλτιστε, φὴσ εἶναι, ὃσ πρῴην κατέχεασ ἡμῖν τὴν πολλὴν χάλαζαν, ὁ οἰκεῖν ὑπεράνω λεγόμενοσ, ὁ ποιῶν τὸν ψόφον, ᾧ τὸν κριὸν ὁ πατὴρ ἔθυσεν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:2)
- τοῦ θεοῦ δὲ λεγόμενοσ, οὐκ ἔσχεσ ἄν ποτ’ οὔτε παγκλήρουσ δόμουσ οὔτ’ ὄνομα πατρόσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic18)
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)
