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.
- καὶ ἐγένετο ἡνίκα εἶδε τὰ ἐνώτια καὶ τὰ ψέλλια ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶ τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὅτε ἤκουσε τὰ ρήματα Ρεβέκκασ τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ αὐτοῦ λεγούσησ. οὕτω λελάληκέ μοι ὁ ἄνθρωποσ, καὶ ἦλθε πρὸσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἑστηκότοσ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν καμήλων ἐπὶ τῆσ πηγῆς (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 24:30)
- ὅμωσ δέ, ἢν ἐθελήσητε ἀκοῦσαί μου λεγούσησ, θαρρῶ πολὺ δικαιότερα ταύτησ ἐρεῖν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 20:2)
- νὴ Δία, καὶ ὥσπερ γε ὁρῶν αὐτὴν οὕτω διατέθειμαι, ὁπόταν κατ’ ἐκεῖνό που ἀναγιγνώσκων γένωμαι, καὶ μονονουχὶ καὶ ἀκούω λεγούσησ αὐτῆσ ἃ πεποίηται λέγουσα, καὶ ὡσ ὥπλιζε τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ οἱά ἦν παραπέμπουσα αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν μάχην. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 10:9)
- ταῦτα ἔτι λεγούσησ αὐτῆσ οὐ περιμείνασ ἐγὼ τὸ τέλοσ τῶν λόγων ἀναστὰσ ἀπεφηνάμην, καὶ τὴν ἄμορφον ἐκείνην καὶ ἐργατικὴν ἀπολιπὼν μετέβαινον πρὸσ τὴν Παιδείαν μάλα γεγηθώσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπεί μοι καὶ εἰσ νοῦν ἦλθεν ἡ σκυτάλη καὶ ὅτι πληγὰσ εὐθὺσ οὐκ ὀλίγασ ἀρχομένῳ μοι χθὲσ ἐνετρίψατο. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 10:1)
- οὔπω ταύτησ ἤκουσα πολυπλοκωτέρασ γυναικὸσ οὐδὲ δεινότερον λεγούσησ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 11)
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)