λέγω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
λέγω
λέξω
ἐλέγην
εἴλοχα
εἴλεγμαι
Structure:
λέγ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: LEX
Sense
- Ι lay down, put to sleep
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.
- οὐκοῦν κακῶσ ἐχρήσατο τῇ λέξει ὁ Αἰσχίνησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Libri secundi de antiquis oratoribus reliquiae, chapter 42)
- καθόλου δὲ τριῶν ὄντων, ὥσ φησι Θεόφραστοσ, ἐξ ὧν γίνεται τὸ μέγα καὶ σεμνὸν καὶ περιττὸν ἐν λέξει, τῆσ τε ἐκλογῆσ τῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ τῆσ ἐκ τούτων ἁρμονίασ καὶ τῶν περιλαμβανόντων αὐτὰ σχημάτων, ἐκλέγει μὲν εὖ πάνυ καὶ τὰ κράτιστα τῶν ὀνομάτων τίθησιν, ἁρμόττει δὲ αὐτὰ περιέργωσ, τὴν εὐφωνίαν ἐντείνων μουσικήν, σχηματίζει τε φορτικῶσ καὶ τὰ πολλὰ γίνεται ψυχρὸσ ἢ τῷ πόρρωθεν λαμβάνειν ἢ τῷ μὴ πρέποντα εἶναι τὰ σχήματα τοῖσ πράγμασι διὰ τὸ μὴ κρατεῖν τοῦ μετρίου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 31)
- βούλεται δὲ ἡ φύσισ τοῖσ νοήμασιν ἕπεσθαι τὴν λέξιν, οὐ τῇ λέξει τὰ νοήματα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 12 2:1)
- καὶ συντίθησί γε αὐτὴν ἀφελῶσ πάνυ καὶ ἁπλῶσ, ὁρῶν ὅτι οὐκ ἐν τῇ περιόδῳ καὶ τοῖσ ῥυθμοῖσ, ἀλλ’ ἐν τῇ διαλελυμένῃ λέξει γίνεται τὸ ἦθοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 86)
- ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἀπολογίαν τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ καὶ αὐτὴν εἰσ Λυσίαν ἀναφερομένην φερομένην οὔτε τοῖσ πράγμασιν ἀτόπωσ ἔχουσαν οὔτε τοῖσ ὀνόμασιν ἀσθενῶσ δι’ ὑποψίασ ἔλαβον οὐκ ἐπανθούσησ τῇ λέξει τῆσ Λυσιακῆσ χάριτοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 12 2:2)
Synonyms
-
Ι lay down
- κατατίθημι (to place, put, lay down)
- κατακοιμάω (to put to sleep, to go to sleep, sleep)
- εὐνάζω (to put to bed, to lay, in a form)
- κατατίθημι (to lay down from oneself, put off, lay aside)
- παρακατακλίνω (to lay down beside, to put to bed with)
- καταπαύω (to put down)
- καθεύδω (to lie down to sleep, sleep)
- εὕδω (to sleep, lie down to sleep)
- ἐγκατακοιμάομαι (to lie down to sleep in)
- κοιτάζω (to put to bed, to go to bed, sleep)
- καταβάλλω (to lay down, set down)
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 (to gather, pick up, picking out stones for building)
- 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)
