# καταλείπω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* καλλείπω (kalleípō) — Epic
* καταλιμπάνω (katalimpánō) — Koine

### Etymology

From κατά (katá) + λείπω (leípō, “to leave”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.ta.lěː.pɔː/ → /ka.taˈli.po/ → /ka.taˈli.po/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ka.ta.lěː.pɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ka.taˈli.po/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ka.taˈli.po/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ka.taˈli.po/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ka.taˈli.po/

### Verb

κᾰτᾰλείπω • (kataleípō)
* to leave behind
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.92
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.725
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.89
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.314
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.78
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.113
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.103
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.34
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.209
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.12
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.96
** to leave as an inheritance
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.33
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.243
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.279
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.18
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 70
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 729B
*** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 556
*** 4th century BC, Isaeus, Cleonymus 45
** (in middle voice) to leave in a certain state
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.125
* to forsake, abandon
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.89
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.226
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.91
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.271
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.344
** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 46
** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 219
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 809
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.16
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.58
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 93
* to leave remaining
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.5
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.11
** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 73E
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.1.8
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 16.23.4
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 71
** New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 4:1
** 60 CE – 120 CE, Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic 1.13.13
** 40 CE – 115 CE, Dio Chrysostom, Collected Works 37.16
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.11
** to leave alone
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.2.4
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1342A.34

#### Inflection
### References

* “καταλείπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “καταλείπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “καταλείπω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* καταλείπω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* καταλείπω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G2641 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible