slip

slip
subs.
Of a plant: Ar. and P. κλῆμα, τό.
Slipping: P. ὀλίσθημα, τό (Plat.).
Fall: P. and V. πτῶμα, τό (Plat.), V. πέσημα, τό.
Mistake: P. and V. ἁ̆μαρτία, ἡ, σφάλμᾰ, τό, P. διαμαρτία, ἡ ; see mistake.
A slip of the tongue: P. γλώσσης ἁμάρτημα, τό (Antipho.).
Make a slip, stumble, v.: P. and V. πταίειν.
Make a mistake: P. and V. ἁ̆μαρτά̆νειν ; see err.
Give (one) the slip: Ar. and P. διολισθά̆νειν (τινά).

slip
v. trans.
Let loose: P. and V. χᾰλᾶν, ἀ̆νῑέναι.
Slip one’s cables: use P. and V. ἀ̆παίρειν ; see set sail.
Let slip, launch: P. and V. ἐφῑέναι; see launch, release, drop.Met., P. and V. μεθῑέναι, ἀ̆φῑέναι, πᾰρῑέναι.
Let an opportunity slip: P. παριέναι καιρόν (Dem.), ἀφιέναι καιρόν (Dem.).
Slip one’s memory: see escape.V. intrans. P. and V. ὀλισθά̆νειν.
Stumble: P. and V. πταίειν.
Fall: P. and V. πίπτειν, κᾰτᾰπίπτειν (Eur. Cycl.).
Make a mistake: see err.
Slip away: P. ὑπεξέρχεσθαι, καταδύεσθαι, Ar. and P. διᾰδύ̄εσθαι, Ar. ὑ̆πᾰποτρέχειν, P. and V. ὑ̆πεκφεύγειν, ἐκδύ̄εσθαι, V. ἀ̆φέρπειν.
Slip by: Ar. πᾰρᾰδύεσθαι.
Slip in, v. trans.: see insert, v. intrans.: Ar. and P. εἰσδύεσθαι (εἰς, acc. or absol.), ὑ̆ποδύ̄εσθαι (absol.). P. and V. ὑ̆πορρεῖν (πρός, acc. or V. dat. alone), P. παραδύεσθαι (εἰς, acc.), παρεμπίπτειν (εἰς, acc.).
Slip in among the oars: P. εἰς τοὺς ταρσοὺς ὑποπίπτειν (Thuc. 7.40).
Slip off: Ar. and V. ἐξολισθά̆νειν, Ar. and P. ἀ̆πολισθά̆νειν.
Fall off: P. περιρρεῖν.
Slip off (one’s clothes.): P. and V. ἐκδύεσθαι (acc.), Ar. and P. ἀ̆ποδύεσθαι (acc.).
Slip on (one’s clothes): P. and V. ἐνδύ̄εσθαι (acc.).
Slip out: see slip away.
Fall out: P. and V. πᾰραρρεῖν.
Slip out of: P. and V. ἐκδύ̄εσθαι (acc. or gen.), V. ὑ̆πεκδύεσθαι (acc.) (Eur. Cycl.); see escape.
Slip past: Ar. πᾰρᾰδύ̄εσθαι (absol.).
Slip through: Ar. and P. διᾰδύ̄εσθαι (acc. or διά̆, gen.).
Slip through one’s fingers: Ar. and P. διολισθά̆νειν τινά; see escape.

SLIP

s. A false step

PROP. vestigii lapsus. To make a slip vestigio falli: to make a slip and fall vestigio fallente cadere.

ImPROP. lapsus (departure from what is right): error (a mistake): peccatum (an offence): to make a slip labi; peccare: “there’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip ” iuter os et offam (sc. multa intervenire possunt; a proverb of Cato’s Gell. 13 17); multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra (a translation of πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου; Vid: Facciol. in Ancaeus): a slip of the memory offensatio memoriae (labentis); or by circumlocution with memoria labi (e.g. to do anything from a slip of the memory memoria lapsum facere aliquid or perperam edere aliquid).

A branch set in the ground surculus.

A long thin board etc. *pala.

A noose Vid:

PHR. To give the slip excidere: elabi. (The words are found in this connection and order.) excidere atque elabi.

slip (v.):

A. Intrans.:

I Lit.: to slide along: lābor, psus, 3: v. TO GLIDE. Phr.: the foot more readily s.ing on the incline, in prono citius pede se fallente, Liv. 21, 36, med.: so, Curt. 4, 9, ad fin., quum saxa lubrica vestigium fallerent: cf. Virg. Aen. 5, 331, vestigia haud tenuit.

II. Fig.: to escape: esp. in phr. to let slip. Phr.: to let s. an opportunity, occasionem amittere, Caes. B. G. 3, 13; praetermittere, id. B. C. 3, 25; dimittere, Nep. Milt. 3; occasioni deesse, Caes. B. C. 3, 79. See also foll. artt.

B. Trans.:

I. To allow to run out: to s. her cable (of a ship), perh. retinacula omittere.

II. To convey secretly: furtim dare, inserere, tradere.

slip (subs.):

I. Lit.: lapsus, ūs (slippery movement): Liv. Of the foot, in walking, vestigii lapsus (R. and A.).

II. Fig.: miss, mistake, fault: Phr.: 'twixt cup and lip there's many a s., inter os et offam (quod aiunt) multa intervenire possunt, Cato in Gell. 13, 17: to make a s., errare, labi, peccare (v. TO ERR, MISTAKE): that was a s. of memory (in an author), memoria lapsus est (R. and A.): per oblivionem in errorem incidit, cf. Suet. Caes. 28: s.s of memory, memoriae labentis offensationes, Sen. Ben. 5, extr.: lapsus memoriae (Kr.): v. ERROR.

III. A twig separated from the main stock:

1. surcŭlus (usu. but not always a shoot from the ground): to break off a s. (from a tree), s. defringere ex. ..., Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 110 (fig.): to plant off a s., s. transferre, Col. 3, 10.

2. planta (more freq. a rooted plant: cf. Pall. 5, 2): to knock off a s. from a bough, p. de ramulo deferre, Varr. R. R. 1, 55: to set a s., p. deponere in horto, Ov. R. Am. 193.

3. virga (a twig): to set a s., v. deplantare, Col. 3, 10 (Ov. M. 14, 630 = a slip for grafting).

IV. A small slip of paper: perh. (parva), scĭda (schĕda), plăgŭla: v. SHEET.

ὀλισθάνω
to slip, slip and fall
κλάδος
a young slip

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διάπτωμα
stumble, slip
εἰστρυπάω
slip in through a hole
κατολισθάνω
to slip
ἀνολισθάνω
slip
ἐπολισθάνω
to slip
ὀλίσθημα
slip, fall
ὑπεισδύομαι
to get in secretly, to slip
ὑποδύομαι
to slip in under, to put on
ὑπολισθάνω
to slip

labor
to glide, slide, move, slip, float, pass, flow
prolabor
to glide forward, slide along, slip
propago2
a set, layer, slip, shoot, offspring

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lapso
to slip, slide, fall
plantaria
sets, slips, young trees