ὑπερπίπτω (uperpipto)

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What it meant

ὑπερπίπτω · hyperpiptō — LSJ

fall over, run over, run over, project, fall over the edge, roll off

fall over, run over, of water, Plb. 4.39.8; run over, project, τῶν τροπικῶν εἰς . . Str. 2.2.2, cf. 2.5.27; fall over the edge, roll off, Arr. Tact. 11.6.

2 fall beyond, pass over, which pass over, will slip over the top of

fall beyond a point, pass over, [ὁ νότος] ὑ. [τῆς Αἰγύπτου] Arist. Pr. 945a25; ὄρεα ὑπερπίπτοντα [πνεύματα] winds which pass over mountains, Hp. Vict. 2.38; of missiles, Aen. Tact. 32.9; of a badly adjusted νευρά in a torsion-engine, ἤτοι ὑπελεύσεται τὸν λίθον ἢ ὑπερπεσεῖται αὐτόν will slip over the top of the projectile, Hero Bel. 112.

3 exceed, excess

of a number, exceed, Vett.Val. 352.13; also τὸν -πίπτοντα ἄρσενα the excess of males, PTeb 701.45 (iii B.C.), cf. PCair.Zen. 327.46, 569.131 (iii B.C.).

II to be past, gone by, over

of Time, to be past, gone by, ἢν ὑπερπέσῃ ἡ νῦν ἡμέρη Hdt. 3.71, cf. Hp. Mul. 2.133; but ὁ -πεσὼν χρόνος overtime for which interest is due, PPetr. 3p.160 (iii B.C.), PAmh. 2.50.19 (ii B.C.), POxy. 1040.25 (iii A.D.), etc.

In the wild

ὑπερπέσῃ · hyperpesēi Herodotus, Histories 3.71.5 (DIORISIS sentence 3420)

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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