The corpus record

καταπέτομαι

katapetomai

fly down

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Where it lives

Birds 3 · 2.82/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

καταπέτομαι · katapetomai — LSJ

fly down

fly down: fut. καταπτήσομαι Luc. Prom. 2: aor. κατέπτᾰτο Ar. Av. 789, al. codd.; part. καταπτάμενος Hdt. 3.111 (v.l. -πετομένας, -πετεωμένας), Ar. V. 16, Av. 1624 codd.; subj. and opt. κατάπτωμαι, -πτοῖο, Luc. Icar. 13, Bis Acc. 8: aor. 2 Act. κατέπτην, part. καταπτάς Arist. HA 614b21, Ph. 2.318, Luc. Charid. 7, Porph. Abst. 1.25: pf. κατέπτηκα Men. Kol. 39: aor. 1 Pass. κατεπετάσθην LXX Pr. 27.8, D.S. 2.20.

In the wild

κατέπτετο · katepteto Aristophanes, Birds 790 (DIORISIS sentence 597)
κατέπτετο · katepteto Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 596)
κατέπτετο · katepteto Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 598)
κατεπέταςʼ · katepetasʼ Aristophanes, Plutus 730 (DIORISIS sentence 581)
καταπετομένας · katapetomenas Herodotus, Histories 3.111.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3725)
καταπτήτην · kataptētēn Iliad 8.136

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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