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.
- λεγέτωσαν πάντεσ καὶ ἐξομολογείσθωσαν αὐτῷ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 13:8)
- ἀγαλλιάσθωσαν καὶ εὐφρανθήτωσαν ἐπὶ σοὶ πάντεσ οἱ ζητοῦντέσ σε, ὁ Θεόσ, καὶ λεγέτωσαν διαπαντόσ. μεγαλυνθήτω ὁ Κύριοσ, οἱ ἀγαπῶντεσ τὸ σωτήριόν σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 69:5)
- ἔστω γὰρ ὁ μὲν ἀληθὴσ ἀριθμὸσ ἡμῖν εἴκοσιν, οἱο͂ν, κυάμουσ τισ εἴκοσιν ἐσ τὴν χεῖρα λαβών, ἐπικλεισάμενοσ ἐρωτάτω δέκα τινάσ, ὁπόσοι εἰσὶν οἱ κύαμοι ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, οἱ δὲ εἰκάζοντεσ ὁ μὲν ἑπτά, ὁ δὲ πέντε, ὁ δὲ τριάκοντα λεγέτωσαν, ὁ δέ τισ δέκα ἢ πεντεκαίδεκα, καὶ ὅλωσ ἄλλοσ ἄλλον τινὰ ἀριθμόν· (Lucian, 135:3)
- πρῶτον μὲν κρυπτώμεθα τὸν τοῦ βασιλέωσ θάνατον καὶ πρὸσ ἅπαντασ ἐξενεχθῆναι παρασκευάσωμεν, ὅτι πληγὴν οὐδεμίαν ἔχει καίριον, οἵ τ’ ἰατροὶ λεγέτωσαν ἐν ὀλίγαισ ἡμέραισ αὐτὸν ἀποδείξειν ὑγιῆ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 4 9:2)
- ἐπεὶ κατά γε τοῦτο λεγέτωσαν μηδὲν εἶναι χαλεπὸν μηδὲ τὸ τοὺσ ὀρφανοὺσ βλάπτειν τοὺσ παντάπασιν ἐρήμουσ, οἳ μήτε ἑαυτοῖσ ἀμύνειν δύνανται μήτε ἄλλον ἔχουσι τὸν κηδόμενον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 96:4)
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)
