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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative γερόντιον γεροντίω γερόντια
Genitive γεροντίου γεροντίοιν γεροντίων
Dative γεροντίῳ γεροντίοιν γεροντίοις
Accusative γερόντιον γεροντίω γερόντια
Vocative γερόντιον γεροντίω γερόντια

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

  • "ὃ πράττωμεν καθήμεθα τὴν ἡμέραν ὅλην περὶ γεροντίων Γραικῶν ζητοῦντεσ, πότερον ὑπὸ τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν ἢ τῶν ἐν Ἀχαϊᾴ νεκροφόρων ἐκκομισθῶσι. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 9 2:1)
  • "ὃ πράττωμεν, καθήμεθα περὶ Γραικῶν γεροντίων ζητοῦντεσ πότερον ὑπὸ τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν ἢ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ νεκροφόρων ἐξενεχθῶσι. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 28 1:1)
  • "ὃ πράττωμεν, καθήμεθα περὶ Γραικῶν γεροντίων ζητοῦντεσ πότερον ὑπὸ τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν ἢ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ νεκροφόρων ἐξενεχθῶσι. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 281)
  • ὥσπερ οὐκ ἔχοντεσ" εἶπεν "ὃ πράττωμεν, καθήμεθα τὴν ἡμέραν ὅλην περὶ γεροντίων Γραικῶν ζητοῦντεσ, πότερον ὑπὸ τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν ἢ τῶν ἐν Ἀχαί̈ᾳ νεκροφόρων ἐκκομισθῶσι. (Polybius, Histories, book 35, b. olymp. 157, 2. achaeorum exsules liberantur 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a little old man

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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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