κελεύω

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Beekes notes that, if it derives from κέλομαι (kélomai, to urge, exhort), the -ευ- 'remains unexplained', and compares it to the -ευ- found in κέλευθος (kéleuthos, road) and τελευτή (teleutḗ, end; tip).[1]
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]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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κελεύω (keleúō)

  1. to urge, bid, exhort
  2. to command, order

Usage notes

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The person being urged or commanded generally takes the accusative (and sometimes the dative), and the action being requested takes the infinitive.

Inflection

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ 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

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