Ancient Greek

Verb

ἐκλείπω • ‎(ekleípō)

1. I leave out, pass over
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 97
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 513
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 827
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 47
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.33
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.48
2. I forsake, desert, abandon
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1040
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 52
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 750
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1635
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.169
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.105
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.13
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.24
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 911
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.144
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.74
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.4.2
3. I leave off, cease
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.239
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 4.56
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Peace 20
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 19
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 985
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1149
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.87
4. I fail, am wanting, am inferior
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1286a37
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 11.17
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 168.21
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 16.75
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 230
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Nigrinus 35
   • Module:Quotations:218: attempt to compare number with nil
5. I fail (someone)
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Accusation of Calumny 16
   • Module:Quotations:218: attempt to compare number with nil
6. I die
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 21
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1186
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Hagnias 10
   • Module:Quotations:218: attempt to compare number with nil
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1131
7. I faint
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prorrh 1.71
8. I depart
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 128
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 219
9. I am left, remain
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Kings 7.13
10. (astronomy) I am eclipsed
    • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 584
    • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.37
    • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.28

Inflection

Derived terms

• παρεκλείπω ‎(parekleípō)
• προεκλείπω ‎(proekleípō)
• συνεκλείπω ‎(sunekleípō)
• ὑπεκλείπω ‎(hupekleípō)

Related terms

References

• ἐκλείπω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐκλείπω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἐκλείπω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἐκλείπω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἐκλείπω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1587”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979