ἀμφιλέγω

• ἀμφιλλ- (amphill-) – Doric

ἀμφι- (amphi-) +‎ λέγω (légō) (λέγω, sense: 'to say').

ἀμφιλέγω • (amphilégō)

1. to dispute, to question
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.11:

     ἀμφιλεξάντων δέ τι ἐνταῦθα τῶν τε τοῦ Μένωνος στρατιωτῶν καὶ τῶν τοῦ Κλεάρχου ὁ Κλέαρχος κρίνας ἀδικεῖν τὸν τοῦ Μένωνος πληγὰς ἐνέβαλεν

     amphilexántōn dé ti entaûtha tôn te toû Ménōnos stratiōtôn kaì tôn toû Kleárkhou ho Kléarkhos krínas adikeîn tòn toû Ménōnos plēgàs enébalen

     • Translation by Carleton L. Brownson

       There one of Menon's soldiers and one of Clearchus' men had some dispute, and Clearchus, deciding that Menon's man was in the wrong, gave him a flogging.

2. to doubt, to argue with two viewpoints
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Apology 12:

     βροντὰς δὲ ἀμφιλέξει τις ἢ μὴ φωνεῖν ἢ μὴ μέγιστον οἰωνιστήριον εἶναι;

     brontàs dè amphiléxei tis ḕ mḕ phōneîn ḕ mḕ mégiston oiōnistḗrion eînai?

     • Translation by William Heinemann

       Will any one dispute either that thunder utters its ‘voice,’ or that it is an omen of the greatest moment? [Socrates speaking of the 'voice of God']

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• ἀμφιλογέω (amphilogéō) (uncontracted), ἀμφιλογῶ (contracted)

• ἀμφίλεκτος (masc. fem.), ἀμφίλεκτον (amphílekton) (neu.) “of which one disputes”
• ἀμφιλογία f (amphilogía, “the doubting”)
• ἀμφίλογος (masc. fem.), ἀμφίλογον (amphílogon) (neu.) “of which one disputes”

• (to disupte): (neuter plural): the disputed

  (Doric) “τὰ ἀμφιλλεγόμενα (tà amphillegómena)”

  (Koine) “τὰ ἀμφιλεγόμενα (tà amphilegómena)”

• Greek: αμφιλέγω (amfilégo)
  • From Koine “τὰ ἀμφιλεγόμενα (tà amphilegómena)”: Greek: αμφιλεγόμενος (amfilegómenos)
• Greek: ἀμφιλογίτης m (polytonic), αμφιλογίτης (amfilogítis, “mineral Muscovite”)
• German: Amphilogit (“Muscovite”) (mineral)
• Medieval Byzantine Greek: ἀνθιλογή f, ἀνθιλογία f (anthilogía)

• ἀμφιλέγω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμφιλέγω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀμφιλέγω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• Dimitrakos, Dimitrios B. (1964) Μέγα λεξικόν ὅλης τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης [Great Dictionary of the entire Greek Language] (in Greek), Athens: Hellenic Paideia
• ἀμφιλέγω in Kriaras, Emmanuel. (n.d.) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας [Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vulgar Greek Literature (1100‑1669) Vols. I‑XIV.] (in Greek), Online edition