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λούω , contr. from λοέω , from which come impf.
A.“λόεον” Od.4.252: aor. inf. “λοέσσαι” 19.320; part. “λοέσσας” Il.23.282: fut. Med. “λοέσσομαι” Od.6.221: 3sg. aor. λοέσσατο ib.227; “λοεσσάμενος” Il.10.577, Schwyzer 633 (Eresus, ii/i B. C.): also Ep. impf. “ἐλούεον” h.Cer.289.—Later forms, “λούει” Hdt.6.52; inf. “λούειν” Hp.Morb.2.20, Pl.Phd.115a: fut. “λούσω” Call.Del.95; Dor. “λουσῶ” Theoc.5.146: aor. “ἔλουσα” Anacr.47, S.Ant.901, Ar.Lys.19 (Ep. “λοῦσα” Il.16.679, etc.):—Med. “λούονται” Hdt.4.75; inf. “λούεσθαι” Il.6.508, Hp.Epid.5.70; part. “λουόμενοι” Hdt.3.23: fut. “λούσομαι” Ar.Nu.837, Pl.Phd.116a: aor. ἐλουσάμην ibid.; Ep. “λούσαντο” Il.10.576; Dor. part. “λωσάμενος” Berl.Sitzb.1927.157 (Cyrene): —Pass., aor. “ἐλούθην” Hp.Mul.1.11, later “ἐλούσθην” Lyc.446: pf. λέλουμαι, 3sg. “λέλουται” Ar.Pax868; part. “λελουμένος” Il.5.6, later “λέλουσμαι” LXX Ca.5.12 (cod. Vat.).—Another old form of the pres. was λόω , whence 3sg. “λόει” Scol.25, 2sg. Med.“κατα-λόει” Ar.Nu.838 (prob.): 3sg. impf. “λόε” Od.10.361, 3pl. “λόον” h.Ap.120; 3sg. subj. Med. “λόηται” IG12(5).569.5 (Ceos, iii B.C.); inf. “λόεσθαι” Hes.Op.749:—to λόω also belong the foll. contr. forms, 3sg. impf. “ἀπ-έλου” Ar.V.118, “ἐλοῦμεν” Id.Pl.657; pres. Pass. “λοῦται” Semon.7.63, X.Cyr.1.3.11, A.Fr. 366 (note); λοῦνται, ἐλοῦτο, Hdt.1.198, 3.125, “ἐλούμην” Men.363; 3pl. “ἐλοῦντο” X.Cyr.4.5.4, etc. (Dor. λῶντο, λώοντο, Call.Lav.Pall.72, 73); inf. “λοῦσθαι” Od.6.216, Hdt.3.124, Ar.Nu.1044, Pl.Lg.942b; part. “λούμενος” Ar.Av.1623, Pl.658, X.Mem.3.13.3: the forms ἐλούομεν, λούομαι, ἐλουόμην, etc., are rejected by Phryn.165, but are freq. found in codd., Lys.1.9, etc.: the imper. form λοῦ (glossed by λοῦσαι, Hsch.), if correct, is contr. for λόε: (Cf. Lat. l[acaron]vo [fr. *lovo]): — wash, prop. wash the body (νίζω being used of the hands and feet, πλύνω of clothes), “τὸν δ᾽ Ἥβη λοῦσεν” Il.5.905; “δμῳαὶ λοῦσαν καὶ χρῖσαν ἐλαίῳ” Od.4.49, cf. 6.210; λοῦσ᾽ ἐν ποταμῷ bathed me, i.e. let me bathe, 7.296; τίς ἄν σφε λούσειεν; A.Th.739 (lyr.); “λούσαντες τὸν νεκρόν” Hdt.2.86, cf. E.Tr.1152, S.Ant.901; “λ. τινὰ ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν” Act.Ap. 16.33; also λὄ ἐκ τρίποδος μεγάλοιο washed me [with water] from a great cauldron, Od.10.361; “ὀϊστοὺς λοῦσεν φοινίσσᾳ . . Ἄρης ψακάδι” Simon. 106: c. acc. cogn., λουτρὸν λοῦσαί τινα, v. λουτρόν 1.2.
b. rarely of things, “λ. τὰ δύο μέρη τοῦ βαλανείου” PFlor.384.30 (v A.D.).
2. metaph., purify, τινὰ ἐκ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν v.l. in Apoc.1.5.
II. Med. and Pass., bathe, “λοῦσθαι ποταμοῖο ῥοῇσι” Od.6.216: also c. gen., λελουμένος Ὠκεανοῖο (of a star just risen) fresh from Ocean's bath, Il.5.6; λούεσθαι ποταμοῖο bathe in the river, 6.508; so “ἀπὸ [κρήνης] λουόμενοι” Hdt.3.23: c. acc. cogn., “τὸ λουτρὸν ἡ Ῥέα λοῦται” Arr.Tact. 33.4: abs., “λούσαντο” Od.4.48, cf. Hdt.5.20, etc.; λελουμένος freshbathed, after bathing, Id.1.126, Ar.Lys.1064 (lyr.); “ἐν βαλανείῳ λελουμένος” Pl.R.495e; “λούεσθαι ἐν πηλῷ” Arist.HA595a31; “εἰς λουτρῶνας” Ptol.Euerg.3 J. (dub.): metaph., “τόξα . . αἵματι λουσάμενα” Simon.143, cf. Call.Del.95; “λελουμένος τῷ φόνῳ” Luc.DMeretr.13.3.
2. in strict pass. sense, λοῦσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ Διός, i.e. to be washed by the rain from heaven, Hdt.3.124, 125.
3. in strict med. sense, c. acc., λοέσσασθαι χρόα wash one's body, Hes.Op.522, Th.5; λούονται (v.l. λοῦνται）“ ὕδατι τὸ σῶμα” Hdt.4.75.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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