λείπω
Etym. from Root ΛΙΠ
I. trans.,
1. "to leave, quit", Hom., etc.
2. "to leave behind, leave at home", id=Hom., etc.; esp. of dying men, "to leave" (as a legacy), Il., etc.:— so in Mid. "to leave behind one", as a memorial, Hdt., etc.
3. "to leave, forsake, abandon, desert, leave in the lurch", Il., etc.; λ. ἐράνους "to fail in paying..", Dem.; so, λ. δασμόν, φοράν Xen.:—conversely, λίπον ἰοὶ ἄνακτα the arrows "failed" him, Od.
II. intr. "to be gone, to be wanting, cease, be missing", Lat. deficio, Soph., Eur., etc.
B. Pass. "to be left, left behind", Hom., etc.
2. "to remain, remain over and above", Il., Hdt., etc.
3. "to remain alive", Od.
II. c. gen. "to be left without, to be forsaken of", σοῦ λελειμμένη Soph.;— but, λελειμμένος δορός "left" by the spear, i. e. not slain, Aesch.
III. "to be left behind in a race", Il.; λελειμμένος οἰῶν "lingering behind" the sheep, Od.; ἐς δίσκουρα λέλειπτο "he had been left behind" as much as a quoit's throw, Il.; τοῦ κήρυκος μὴ λείπεσθαι not "to be behind" the herald, Thuc.
2. "to come short of, be inferior, worse, weaker or less than", τινος Hdt., attic; λέλειψαι τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων "you come short of, understand not" my plans, Eur.
3. λείπεσθαι ἀπό τινος "to keep aloof from" one, Il.; λ. βασιλέος or ἀπὸ βασιλέος "to desert" the king, Hdt.:—absol. "to keep aloof, be absent", id=Il.
4. "to be wanting or lacking in" a thing, ὀδυρμάτων ἐλείπετ᾽ οὐδέν Soph., etc.