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γερόντιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: γερόντιον

Structure: γεροντι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ge/rwn의 지소사

Sense

  1. a little old man

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὡσ γὰρ εἰσῆλθε τὰ γερόντια τότ’ εἰσ δόμουσ, εὐθὺσ ἀνεκλίνετο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 33 2:2)
  • καὶ οὐχ ὁρῶσιν οὔτε φίλιον στράτευμα οὔτε πολέμιον καὶ ταῦτα ἀπαγγέλλουσι πρὸσ τὸν Ξενοφῶντα καὶ τὸ στράτευμα, γρᾴδια δὲ καὶ γερόντια καὶ πρόβατα ὀλίγα καὶ βοῦσ καταλελειμμένουσ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. a little old man

Related

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

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