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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

  • οὐχ οὕτωσ εἰμὶ γέρων ἐγὼ καὶ ἄνανδροσ ὥστε μοι διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν μὴ νεάζειν τὸν λογισμόν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:30)
  • ἀλλὰ ὑψηλοὺσ ἀνατείνασ εἰσ τὸν οὐρανὸν τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ἀπεξαίνετο ταῖσ μάστιξι τὰσ σάρκασ ὁ γέρων καὶ κατερρεῖτο τῷ αἵματι (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 6:6)
  • καὶ διεκαρτέρει τοὺσ αἰκισμούσ, καὶ καθάπερ γενναῖοσ ἀθλητὴσ τυπτόμενοσ ἐνίκα τοὺσ βασανίζοντασ ὁ γέρων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 6:10)
  • καίτοι τὸ θαυμασιώτατον, γέρων ὤν, λελυμένων μὲν ἤδη τῶν τοῦ σώματοσ τόνων, περικεχαλασμένων δὲ τῶν σαρκῶν, κεκμηκότων δὲ καὶ τῶν νεύρων, ἀνενέασε (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 7:13)
  • εἰ δέ τοίνυν γέρων ἀνὴρ τῶν μέχρι θανάτου βασάνων περιεφρόνησε δι’ εὐσέβειαν, ὁμολογουμένωσ ἡγεμών ἐστι τῶν παθῶν ὁ εὐσεβὴσ λογισμόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 7:16)

Synonyms

  1. an old man

  2. elders

  3. old

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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