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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

  • ταῦτα οἱ Ἰνδοὶ καὶ ὁ βασιλεῦσ αὐτῶν ἀκούοντεσ ἐγέλων, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, καὶ οὐδ’ ἀντεπεξάγειν ἢ παρατάττεσθαι ἠξίουν, ἀλλ’ εἴπερ ἄρα, τὰσ γυναῖκασ ἐπαφήσειν αὐτοῖσ, εἰ πλησίον γένοιντο, σφίσι δὲ καὶ νικᾶν αἰσχρὸν ἐδόκει καὶ φονεύειν γύναια μεμηνότα καὶ θηλυμίτρην ἄρχοντα καὶ μεθύον σμικρὸν γερόντιον καὶ ἡμίτραγον στρατιώτην ἄλλον καὶ γυμνήτασ ὀρχηστάσ, πάντασ γελοίουσ. (Lucian, (no name) 3:1)
  • ἢ πάνυ γερόντιον ἴσωσ νενόμικάσ με σύ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Choral, antistrophe4)
  • νῷν γάρ ἐστι δεσπότησ ἄγροικοσ ὀργὴν κυαμοτρὼξ ἀκράχολοσ, Δῆμοσ πυκνίτησ, δύσκολον γερόντιον ὑπόκωφον. (Aristotle, Prologue 2:2)
  • οὐκ ἐσ κόρακασ ἀποφθερεῖ, ἐπιλησμότατον καὶ σκαιότατον γερόντιον; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:19)
  • εἴπ’ ἄγε μ’ ὦ Κορύδων, τὸ γερόντιον ἦ ῥα διώκει, τήναν τὰν κυάνοφρυν ἐρωτίδα, τᾶσ ποκ’ ἐκνίσθη; (Theocritus, Idylls, 58)

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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