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 ἂν λέγοιμεν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:1)
- εἰ δ’ ἐπὶτοῦτο, λέγοιμεν ἄν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 37 2:6)
- εὐφημίᾳ δὲ ὅταν τὰ δυσχερῆ μὴ παραλείποντεσ ἐπὶ τὸ εὐφημότερον ταῦτα ἐξηγησώμεθα, οἱο͂ν εἰ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον ἐπαινοῦντεσ τὴν τῆσ Ἑλένησ ἁρπαγὴν λέγοιμεν οὐκ ἀδίκημα οὐδὲ μοιχείαν οὐδὲ ἁμάρτημά τι περὶ τὸν Μενέλαον τὸν ξένον γενόμενον, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τοῦ Διὸσ ἐπεθύμησε κηδεστὴσ γενέσθαι, καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἑλένησ, ὡσ οὐχ ἥμαρτε καταλιποῦσα τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα καὶ τὸν οἶκον, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἔνδοξοσ γενέσθαι ἐσπούδαζε. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 11:10)
- τοῦτο δέ που ἀναμιμνῄσκεσθαι λέγοντεσ ὀρθῶσ ἂν λέγοιμεν; (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 330:2)
- εἰ οὖν λέγοιμεν ὅτι κάλλει τε καὶ μεγέθει καὶ γένει καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ φύσει τῆσ ψυχῆσ, ἡγήσαιτ’ ἂν ἡμᾶσ, ὦ Ἀλκιβιάδη, μαίνεσθαι πρὸσ τὰ παρὰ σφίσιν ἀποβλέψασα πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 125:2)
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)
