γαμέω
Etym. γάμος
I. "to marry", i. e. "to take to wife", Lat. ducere, of the man, Hom., etc.; ἔγημε θυγατρῶν "married one of" his daughters, Il.:—c. acc. cogn., γάμον γαμεῖν, Aesch., Eur.:— ἐκ κακοῦ, ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ γῆμαι "to marry a wife" of mean or noble stock, Theogn.
II. Mid. "to give oneself or one's" child "in marriage":
1. of the woman, "to give herself in marriage", i. e. "to get married, to wed", Lat. nubere, c. dat., Od., Hdt.; γήμασθαι εἰς.. "to marry" into a family, Eur.:—ironically of a henpecked husband, κεῖνος οὐκ ἔγημεν ἀλλ᾽ ἐγήματο Anacr.; (cf. Martial, "uxori nubere nolo meae)"; so Medea speaks contemptuously of Jason, as if "she" were the husband, γαμοῦσα σέ Eur.
2. of the parents, "to get their children married", or "betroth" them, "to get a wife for the son", Πηλεύς μοι γυναῖκα γαμέσσεται Il.