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γεραιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γεραιός γεραιή γεραιόν

Structure: γεραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = ghraio/s

Sense

  1. old, signor, that reverend sire, the elders, senators, eldest
  2. ancient

Examples

  • οἴνου γεραιοῖσ χείλεσιν μέγα σκύφοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 99 4:9)
  • ἦ μακροβίοτοσ ὅδε γέ τισ αἰὼν ἐφάνθη γεραιοῖσ, ἀκούειν τόδε πῆμ’ ἀέλπτον. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. ancient

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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