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.
- ἕτεροσ δὲ τρόποσ ὁ διὰ τοῦ λεγομένου κολλυρίου· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 21:6)
- ὃ καλοῦσί τινεσ δειλινόν, ὅ ἐστι μεταξὺ τοῦ ὑφ’ ἡμῶν λεγομένου ἀρίστου καὶ δείπνου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 19 3:2)
- εἰ γὰρ τὸ Σαπφικόν τισ ἐπιθαλάμιον τουτί οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀτέρα πάισ, ὦ γαμβρέ, τοιαύτά ποτα καὶ τοῦ κωμικοῦ τετραμέτρου, λεγομένου δὲ Ἀριστοφανείου τουδί ὅτ’ ἐγὼ τὰ δίκαια λέγων ἤνθουν καὶ σωφροσύνη ’νενόμιστο τοὺσ τελευταίουσ πόδασ τρεῖσ καὶ τὴν κατάληξιν ἐκλαβὼν συνάψειε τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀτέρα πάισ, ὦ γαμβρέ, τοιαύτά ποτα καὶ σωφροσύνη ’νενόμιστο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2538)
- δοκιμαζομένου μάλιστα παρ’ αὐτοῖσ τοῦ μέλανοσ λεγομένου ζωμοῦ, ὥστε μὴ κρεαδίου δεῖσθαι τοὺσ πρεσβυτέρουσ, παραχωρεῖν δὲ τοῖσ νεανίσκοισ, λέγεται Διονύσιοσ ὁ τῆσ Σικελίασ τύραννοσ τούτου χάριν Λακωνικὸν μάγειρον πρίασθαι καὶ προστάξαι σκευάσαι αὐτῷ μηδενὸσ φειδόμενον ἀναλώματοσ· (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 21)
- δοκιμαζομένου μάλιστα παρ’ αὐτοῖσ τοῦ μέλανοσ λεγομένου ζωμοῦ, ὥστε μὴ κρεαδίου δεῖσθαι τοὺσ πρεσβυτέρουσ, παραχωρεῖν δὲ τοὺσ νεανίσκουσ, λέγεται Διονύσιοσ ὁ τῆσ Σικελίασ; (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 21)
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)
