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.
- τί γὰρ ἄν τισ ἢ τὸν Σωκράτην λέγοι τὸν ἀδίκωσ πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ διαβεβλημένον ὡσ ἀσεβῆ καὶ ἐπίβουλον; (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 29:1)
- καίτοι λέγοι τισ ἄν, ὡσ μετὰ τοῦ σαφοῦσ ἐξεταζόμενον ἡδὺ φαίνεται τὸ βραχύ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 17:3)
- πρῶτον μὲν εἰ ἐπίσταιτο τοὺσ τῶν ἄλλων χαρακτῆρασ, ἔπειτα τοὺσ μὲν Λυσίου παραπλησίουσ λόγουσ τούτῳ προσφέροι, τοὺσ δ’ Ὑπερείδου δόξαντασ εἶναί τισι Δεινάρχου λέγοι μακρὰ ταῖσ ἐπιγραφαῖσ τῶν βυβλίων χαίρειν εἰπών, τοὺσ δὲ τῷ Δημοσθενικῷ χαρακτῆρι προσεληλυθότασ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε τούτου τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ διαβεβαιοῖτο εἶναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 62)
- περὶ μὲν οὖν τοῦ προτέρου τί ἄν τισ καὶ λέγοι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 7 2:4)
- ὁ δὲ φωνάσ τινασ ἀσήμουσ φθεγγόμενοσ, οἱαῖ γένοιντο ἂν Ἑβραίων ἢ Φοινίκων, ἐξέπληττε τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ οὐκ εἰδότασ ὅ τι καὶ λέγοι, πλὴν τοῦτο μόνον, ὅτι πᾶσιν ἐγκατεμίγνυ τὸν Ἀπόλλω καὶ τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 13:5)
Synonyms
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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)
