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.
- παρὰ δὲ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ μεγίστη ποτὲ πασῶν ἦν διαβολή, εἰ λέγοιτο τισ μὴ σέβειν μηδὲ προσκυνεῖν τὸν Ἡφαιστίωνα· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 17:1)
- ἢν μέντοι μὴ ἐξαγώνια μηδὲ πόρρω τοῦ σκοποῦ τὰ λεγόμενα ᾖ, κωλύσει οὐδέν, οἶμαι, εἰ καὶ μακρὰ λέγοιτο, ἐπεὶ καὶ τῇ βουλῇ τῇ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου, ἥπερ τὰσ φονικὰσ ἡμῖν δίκασ δικάζει, πάτριον οὕτω ποιεῖν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 19:1)
- ὧν δ’ οὔτ’ αἴσθησιν ἔσχεν οὔτ’ ἔλαβεν ἐπίνοιαν, πῶσ ἂν στέρεσθαι λέγοιτο; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 9 10:2)
- Κἀγὼ μηδὲν ὑπονοήσασ ἐσ τὰσ Ταριχέασ ἀπῆλθον καταλιπὼν ὅμωσ ἐν τῇ πόλει τοὺσ πολυπραγμονήσοντασ, τί περὶ ἡμῶν λέγοιτο. (Flavius Josephus, 330:1)
- ἡ γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ η γινομένη συλλαβὴ μακρὰ τὴν φύσιν οὖσα τεττάρων γραμμάτων προσθήκαισ παραυξηθεῖσα τριῶν μὲν προταττομένων, ἑνὸσ δὲ ὑποταττομένου, καθ’ ἣν λέγεται σπλήν, μείζων ἂν δήπου λέγοιτο εἶναι τῆσ προτέρασ ἐκείνησ τῆσ μονογραμμάτου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1515)
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)
