Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *kel- (to drive).

Pronunciation edit

 

Verb edit

κέλομαι (kélomai)

  1. to command
  2. to urge, exhort

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

  • κέκλομαι (kéklomai) (late present-tense back-formation from the aorist ἐκέκλετο (ekékleto))

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • κέλομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 670
  • κέλομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • κέλομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press