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.
- ἐὰν δὲ λέγῃ πρόσ σε, οὐκ ἐξελεύσομαι ἀπὸ σοῦ, ὅτι ἠγάπηκέ σε καὶ τὴν οἰκίαν σου, ὅτι εὖ ἐστιν αὐτῷ παρὰ σοί, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:16)
- καὶἐπιθῇ αὐτῇ προφασιστικοὺσ λόγουσ καὶ κατενέγκῃ αὐτῆσ ὄνομα πονηρὸν καὶ λέγῃ. τὴν γυναῖκα ταύτην εἴληφα καὶ προσελθὼν αὐτῇ οὐκ εὕρηκα αὐτῆσ τὰ παρθένια, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 22:14)
- πρὸσ Διόσ, ἐὰν λέγῃ ταῦτα ὁ νεκρὸσ ἐπιστραφείσ, ἀνακλίνασ αὑτὸν ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνοσ, οὐκ ἂν οἰόμεθα δικαιότατα ἂν αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν ; (Lucian, (no name) 18:2)
- ἀρρενικῶν δὲ καὶ θηλυκῶν καὶ οὐδετέρων ἀντιμετατάξεισ ἐκβεβηκυῖαι τῶν συνήθων σχημάτων αἱ τοιαίδε εἰσίν, ὅταν τὴν μὲν ταραχὴν τάραχον καλῇ τὸ θηλυκὸν ἐκφέρων ἀρρενικῶσ καὶ τὴν ὄχλησιν ὄχλον, τὴν δὲ βούλησιν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τὸ βουλόμενον λέγῃ καὶ τὸ δυνάμενον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 101)
- ἀληθέα τάδε ὁ λόγοσ ὑμῖν, ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, μυθέεται καὶ οἱ πείθεσθε ὅσα ἂν λέγῃ τουτέων πέρι ὄψιν ἀκοῆσ προτιμέων ὦτα γὰρ τυγχάνει ἐόντα ἀπιστότερα ὀφθαλμῶν· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 20:4)
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)
