Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • καὶ μὴν ὅδ’ αὐτὸσ σὸσ πατὴρ βαίνει πέλασ γεραιὸσ Ἶφισ ἐσ νεωτέρουσ λόγουσ, οὓσ οὐ κατειδὼσ πρόσθεν ἀλγήσει κλύων. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, antistrophe 1 1:1)
  • τίσ οὐκ ἔβα νεανίδων, τίσ οὐ γεραιὸσ ἐκ δόμων; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 15)
  • μῶν ἐν οἷσ Οἰνεὺσ ὁδὶ ὁ δύσποτμοσ γεραιὸσ ἠγωνίζετο; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:16)
  • οὓσ δ’ ἐν δόμοισιν ἔλιφ’ ὅτ’ ἐσ Τροίαν ἔπλει, ἄρσενά τ’ Ὀρέστην θῆλύ τ’ Ἠλέκτρασ θάλοσ, τὸν μὲν πατρὸσ γεραιὸσ ἐκκλέπτει τροφεὺσ μέλλοντ’ Ὀρέστην χερὸσ ὑπ’ Αἰγίσθου θανεῖν Στροφίῳ τ’ ἔδωκε Φωκέων ἐσ γῆν τρέφειν· (Euripides, episode 1:6)
  • ἦ ῥα καὶ ἀμφίπολον ταμίην ὤτρυν’ ὁ γεραιὸσ χερσὶν ὕδωρ ἐπιχεῦαι ἀκήρατον ἡ δὲ παρέστη χέρνιβον ἀμφίπολοσ πρόχοὸν θ’ ἅμα χερσὶν ἔχουσα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 75 1:1)

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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