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.
- ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει Κύριοσ, ἐὰν γένηται ἔτι λεγομένη ἡ παραβολὴ αὕτη ἐν τῷ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 18:3)
- καὶ εἶπα. μηδαμῶσ Κύριε Κύριε. αὐτοὶ λέγουσι πρόσ με. οὐχὶ παραβολή ἐστι λεγομένη αὕτη̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 20:49)
- γίνεται δέ, ὥσπερ ἐν λόγοισ, οὕτω δὲ καὶ ἐν ὀρχήσει ἡ πρὸσ τῶν πολλῶν λεγομένη κακοζηλία ὑπερβαινόντων τὸ μέτρον τῆσ μιμήσεωσ καὶ πέρα τοῦ δέοντοσ ἐπιτεινόντων, καὶ εἰ μέγα τι δεῖξαι δέοι, ὑπερμέγεθεσ ἐπιδεικνυμένων, καὶ εἰ ἁπαλόν, καθ’ ὑπερβολὴν θηλυνομένων, καὶ τὰ ἀνδρώδη ἄχρι τοῦ ἀγρίου καὶ θηριώδουσ προαγόντων. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 82:1)
- ἐννεακαιδέκατον δ’ ἔτοσ ἔχων ἠρξάμην τε πολιτεύεσθαι τῇ Φαρισαίων αἱρέσει κατακολουθῶν, ἣ παραπλήσιόσ ἐστι τῇ παρ’ Ἕλλησιν Στωϊκῇ λεγομένῃ. (Flavius Josephus, 14:2)
- τοῦ δὲ πολέμου καὶ τῆσ στρατηγίασ αὑτοῦ τὸ μὲν τόλμησ ὀξύτητι, τὸ δὲ βουλεύμασι χρηστοῖσ, τὸ δὲ φίλων ἐκθύμοισ ὑπηρεσίαισ, τὸ δὲ τῷ παρὰ τὰ δεινὰ θαρρεῖν καὶ χρῆσθαι λογισμοῖσ ἀραρόσιν ὁρῶν διαπεπραγμένον, οὐκ ἔχω τῇ λεγομένῃ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εὐτυχίᾳ λαμπρὸν ἀποδοῦναι καὶ διάσημον ἔργον οἱο͂ν ἑτέρων στρατηγῶν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 12 1:2)
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)
