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.
- τοῦτον δὲ διαγαγὼν Δοσίθεοσ ὁ Δριμύλου λεγόμενοσ, τὸ γένοσ Ἰουδαῖοσ, ὕστερον δὲ μεταβαλὼν τὰ νόμιμα καὶ τῶν πατρίων δογμάτων ἀπηλλοτριωμένοσ, ἄσημόν τινα κατέκλινεν ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ, ὃν συνέβη κομίσασθαι τὴν ἐκείνου κόλασιν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:3)
- τῷ γὰρ ἠθμῷ ἀντλεῖν τοῦτ’ ἔστιν, καὶ ὁ λεγόμενοσ τετρημένοσ πίθοσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 33:4)
- λέγω δὲ ἐπὶ κάλλουσ μὲν σωμάτων, τί δή ποτε τοῦτ’ ἐστίν, ὃ καλοῦμεν ὡρ́αν, ἐπὶ κινήσεωσ δὲ μελῶν καὶ πλοκῆσ φθόγγων, τί λέγεται τὸ εὐάρμοστον, ἐπὶ συμμετρίασ δὲ χρόνων, τίσ ἡ τάξισ καὶ τί τὸ εὔρυθμον, καὶ ἐπὶ παντὸσ δὲ συλλήβδην ἔργου τε καὶ πράγματοσ, τίσ ὁ λεγόμενοσ καιρὸσ καὶ ποῦ τὸ μέτριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 112)
- Σύ, ὦ βέλτιστε, φὴσ εἶναι, ὃσ πρῴην κατέχεασ ἡμῖν τὴν πολλὴν χάλαζαν, ὁ οἰκεῖν ὑπεράνω λεγόμενοσ, ὁ ποιῶν τὸν ψόφον, ᾧ τὸν κριὸν ὁ πατὴρ ἔθυσεν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:2)
- τοῦ θεοῦ δὲ λεγόμενοσ, οὐκ ἔσχεσ ἄν ποτ’ οὔτε παγκλήρουσ δόμουσ οὔτ’ ὄνομα πατρόσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic18)
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)
