λοιπός (loipos)

Where it lives

Letter 5 1 · 35.59/10k
On the Sacred Disease 12 · 26.15/10k
Philippians 4 · 25.03/10k
Letter 3 1 · 23.81/10k
1 Thessalonians 3 · 20.63/10k
Prometheus Bound 12 · 20.41/10k
First Olynthiac 3 · 16.47/10k
De aere aquis et locis 12 · 16.2/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 4 · 15.94/10k
Against the Sophists 2 · 15.09/10k
Letter 8 1 · 15.04/10k
Second Olynthiac 3 · 14.68/10k

Densest 12 of 207 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

λοιπός · loipos — LSJ

remaining over, descendants

remaining over, not in Hom., freq.from Pi. and Hdt. downwards; λ. βίοτος Pi. O. 1.97; λ. εὐχαί ib. 4.15; λ. γένος ib. 2.15; also λοιποί descendants, Id. I. 4(3).39: in Prose the Art. is commonly added, and ὁ λ. either agrees with the Noun or takes a dependent genitive, αἱ λ. τῶν νεῶν Th. 7.72; τὴν λοιπὴν (sc. ὁδὸν) πορευσόμεθα X. An. 3.4.46; τὸ λ. τῆς ἡμέρας ib. 16, etc.

2 it remains, what remains, quod superest

λοιπόν [ἐστι] c. inf., it remains to show, etc., ἀποδεικνύναι, διελέσθαι, etc., Id. Smp. 4.1, Pl. R. 466d, etc.: also c. Art., τὸ λ. ἤδη ἡμῖν ἐστι σκέψασθαι, πότερον what remains for us is to . . , ib. 444e; διανομὴ τοίνυν τὸ λ. σοι ib. 535a: without inf., ὃ δὲ λ. quod superest, A. Ag. 1571 (lyr.); ὅ τι λ. πόνων Id. Pr. 684; τὸ εὐπρεπείας πέρι . . λοιπόν Pl. Phdr. 274b.

3 the future, for the future, henceforward, hereafter, now, now

freq. of Time, ὁ λ. χρόνος the future, Pi. N. 7.67; πρὸς τὸν λοιπὸν τοῦ χρόνου D. 15.16; τὸν λ. χρόνον for the future, S. Ph. 84; τοῦ λ. χρόνου Id. El. 817; εἰς τὸν λ. χρόνον Pl. Ep. 358b; ἐκ τοῦ λ. χρόνου D. 59.46: so without Subst. in neut., τὸ λ. henceforward, hereafter, Pi. P. 5.118, A. Eu. 1031, S. OT 795, etc.; τὸ λ. εἰς ἅπαντα . . χρόνον A. Eu. 763; τὰ λ. Id. Th. 66, S. El. 1226, Th. 8.21; ἐς τὸ λ. A. Pers. 526, Eu. 708, cf. Inscr.Prien. 64 (ii B. C.); also τοῦ λ. Hdt. 1.189, Ar. Pax 1084

4 the rest, ‘etc.’, for the rest, further, already

τὸ λ. and τὰ λ. the rest, A. Pr. 476, 697, 699. etc.; καὶ τὰ λ., = ‘etc.’, Aristeas 190, Plu. Comm.not. 2.1084c, etc.; also λοιπόν without the Art., as Adv., for the rest, further, and so freq., = ἤδη, already, λ. δή Pl. Prt. 321c; αἰσχρὸν δὴ τὸ λ. γίγνεται Id. Grg. 458d.

5 then, well then

λοιπόν, Adv. then, well then, Plb. 1.15.11, al., Dsc. 2.83, Arr. Epict. 1.24.1; οὐδεμία λ. ἀμφισβήτησίς ἐστιν BGU 969.19 (ii A. D.).

b finally

finally, λ., ἀδελφοί, χαίρετε 2 Ep.Cor. 13.11.

In the wild

λοιπόν · loipon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1571–1573
λοιποῖσιν · loipoisin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 573–574
λοιπὸν · loipon Aeschylus, Eumenides 1028–1031
λοιπὸν · loipon Aeschylus, Eumenides 683–684
λοιπόν · loipon Aeschylus, Eumenides 707
λοιπὸν · loipon Aeschylus, Eumenides 762–766

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λοιπός (scan p. 917; entry #3796).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λοιπός (scan p. 663; entry #4894).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λοιπός (scan p. 1107; entry #3620).

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