καθυστερ-έω (kathustereo)

Where it lives

Siracides 2 · 1.08/10k
Paralipomenon I 1 · 0.75/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

καθυστερ-έω · kathyster-eō — LSJ

fall behind, fall short

fall behind, κ. πολὺ τῇ διώξει Plu. Crass. 29: metaph., fall short, τῇ φύσει Plb. 23.7.5.

2 come too late for, shalt, be slow to offer, delay, to be later

of Time, κ. τῆς ἑορτῆς come too late for . . , PSI 6.607.7 (iii B.C.); κ. τῆς καταστάσεως τῶν ὑπάτων Plb. 11.33.8; πάντων Id. 5.17.7; τῆς ἐκτάξεως Id. 10.39.5, cf. D.S. 5.53, Str. 14.2.5: c. acc., ἀπαρχὰς ἅλωνος οὐ -ήσεις shalt not be slow to offer, LXX Ex. 22.29(28): abs., ξενίας ἀεὶ φρόντιζε, μὴ καθυστέρει Men. Mon. 396; delay, Plb. 5.16.5; of growing plants, to be later, Thphr. CP 1.17.2.

3 fare badly, come short of, lack, fail in

fare badly, ἐν αἷς (sc. πρεσβείαις) ἐν οὐδενὶ καθυστέρησεν ὁ δῆμος OGI 339.22 (Sestos, ii B.C.): c. gen., come short of, πάσης τροφῆς LXX Si. 37.20; lack, ἀγαθοῦ νοῦ Phld. Rh. 2.61 S.; δικαίου μηθενὸς κ. SIG 568.13 (Halasarna, iii B. C.); fail in, πράξεων Ph. Bel. 103.11.

4 fail, in

c. dupl. gen., fail a person in, ἐλιπάρεον [τὸν Ἀσκληπιὸν] μὴ -έειν μου τῆς θεραπείης Hp. Ep. 15.

5 to be kept waiting for

to be kept waiting for a thing, c. gen., ἐντονίων Ph. Bel. 58.3; θανάτου Ps.-Luc. Philopatr. 16.

In the wild

καθυστερεῖν · kathysterein Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5534)
καθυστερήσεις · kathysterēseis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5548)
καθυστερήσεις · kathysterēseis Septuaginta, Exodus 22
καθυστερῆσαι · kathysterēsai Septuaginta, Paralipomenon I 26
καθυστερήσει · kathysterēsei Septuaginta, Siracides 16
καθυστερήσει · kathysterēsei Septuaginta, Siracides 37

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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