κελεύω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
UncertainCategory:Ancient Greek terms with unknown etymologies#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ. Beekes notes that, if it derives from κέλομαι (kélomai, “to urge, exhort”), the -ευ- (-eu-) 'remains unexplained', and compares it to the -ευ- (-eu-) found in κέλευθος (kéleuthos, “road”) and τελευτή (teleutḗ, “end; tip”).[1] However, it appears feasible that the suffix is simply -εύω (-eúō, “verbal suffix”)Category:Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -εύω#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. what does beekes mean here? isn't this just the suffix -εύω [for which we have an entry]Category:Requests for expansion of etymologies in Ancient Greek entries#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ke.lěu̯.ɔː/Category:Ancient Greek 3-syllable words#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /keˈle.wo/Category:Ancient Greek 3-syllable words#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ceˈle.βo/Category:Ancient Greek 3-syllable words#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ceˈle.vo/Category:Ancient Greek 3-syllable words#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ceˈle.vo/Category:Ancient Greek 3-syllable words#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ
Verb
κελεύω • (keleúō)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek verbs#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek paroxytone terms#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Pages with entries#ΚΕΛΕΥΩCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΚΕΛΕΥΩ
Usage notes
The person being urged or commanded generally takes the accusative (and sometimes the dative), and the action being requested takes the infinitive.
Inflection
Derived terms
- ἀντικελεύω (antikeleúō)
- διακελεύομαι (diakeleúomai)
- ἐγκελεύω (enkeleúō)
- ἐπικελεύω (epikeleúō)
- κατακελεύω (katakeleúō)
- Κελεός (Keleós)
- κέλευσις (kéleusis)
- κελευσκή (keleuskḗ)
- κέλευσμα (kéleusma)
- κελευσματικῶς (keleusmatikôs)
- κελευσμός (keleusmós)
- κελευσμοσύνη (keleusmosúnē)
- κελευστέον (keleustéon)
- κελευστής (keleustḗs)
- κελευστικός (keleustikós)
- κελευστός (keleustós)
- κέλευστρα (kéleustra)
- κελεύστωρ (keleústōr)
- κελευτιάω (keleutiáō)
- παρακελεύομαι (parakeleúomai)
- προκελεύω (prokeleúō)
- συγκελεύω (sunkeleúō)
- ὑποκελεύω (hupokeleúō)
References
- ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κελεύω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 669
Further reading
- “κελεύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κελεύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κελεύω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κελεύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- κελεύω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κελεύω”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2753 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κελεύω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011