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γέρων

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γέρων γέροντος

Structure: γεροντ (Stem)

Sense

  1. an old man
  2. (in the plural) elders, i.e. a ruling or advisory council
  3. (as an adjective) old

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐπὶ τῶν σκελῶν αὐτοῦ οἱᾶ τοῖσ γέρουσιν ἐπιεικῶσ γίνεται, ἤρετο, Τί τοῦτο, ὦ Δημῶναξ; (Lucian, (no name) 45:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἄνδρασ ἐσφέρω, τοῖσ δὲ δυστήνοισ γέρουσιν οὐ μέτεσθ’ ὑμῖν, ἐπεὶ τὸν ἔρανον τὸν λεγόμενον παππῷον ἐκ τῶν Μηδικῶν εἶτ’ ἀναλώσαντεσ οὐκ ἀντεσφέρετε τὰσ ἐσφοράσ, ἀλλ’ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν διαλυθῆναι προσέτι κινδυνεύομεν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees4)
  • δὸσ δὲ γυναῖκα τήνδε νέων μὲν ἀναίνεσθαι φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν, ἡ δ’ ἐπιτερπέσθω πολιοκροτάφοισι γέρουσιν, ὧν ἰσχὺσ μὲν ἀπήμβλυνται, θυμὸσ δὲ μενοινᾷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 61 1:2)
  • καὶ κολλύραν τοῖσι γέρουσιν διὰ τοὐν Μαραθῶνι τρόπαιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 75 5:4)
  • ἡδονῶν τὸ γῆρασ ἣ τ’ Ἀφροδίτη τοῖσ γέρουσιν ἄχθεται κατ’ Εὐριπίδην, ταύτασ μάλιστα συνάγειν τὰσ ἡδονάσ, ὥσπερ εἰσ πολιορκίαν ἄσηπτα σιτία καὶ ἄφθαρτα παρατιθεμένουσ· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 12 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. an old man

  2. elders

  3. old

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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