# ἐκλείπω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) +‎ λείπω (leípō, “to leave”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /e.klěː.pɔː/ → /eˈkli.po/ → /eˈkli.po/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /e.klěː.pɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /eˈkli.po/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /eˈkli.po/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /eˈkli.po/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /eˈkli.po/

### Verb

ἐκλείπω • (ekleípō)
* to 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
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 188e
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.48
* to 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
* to 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
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 234b
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 249b
** 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
* to fail, be wanting, be 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
** 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 16.75
** 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 230
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Nigrinus 35
** Module:Quotations:526: attempt to compare number with nil
* to fail (someone)
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Accusation of Calumny 16
** Module:Quotations:526: attempt to compare number with nil
* to 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:526: attempt to compare number with nil
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1131
* to faint
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prorrh 1.71
* to depart
** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 128
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 219
* to be left, remain
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Kings 7.13
* (astronomy) to be 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

#### Derived terms

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

#### Related terms

* ἀνέκλειπτος (anékleiptos)
* δυσέκλειπτος (dusékleiptos)
* ἐκλειπία (ekleipía)
* ἐκλειπτέον (ekleiptéon)
* ἐκλειπτικός (ekleiptikós)
* ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis)
* ἐκλιπής (eklipḗs)
* ἐκλοιπάζω (ekloipázō)

### Further reading

* “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 (2006–2025)
* “ἐκλείπω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G1587 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible