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γηραιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γηραιός

Structure: γηραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gh=ras

Sense

  1. aged, in old age

Declension

First/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

  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν περιέδυσαν τὸν γηραιὸν ἐγκοσμούμενον τῇ περὶ τὴν εὐσέβειαν εὐσχημοσύνῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 6:2)
  • Φοίνισσαν βοὰν κλύουσ’, ὦ νεάνιδεσ, γηραιὸν πόδ’ ἕλκω, τρομερὰν βάσιν· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric1)
  • "ταὐτὸ γ’ ἔνι ζῶν καὶ τεθνηκὸσ καὶ τὸ ἐγρηγορὸσ καὶ τὸ καθεῦδον καὶ νέον καὶ γηραιὸν τάδε γὰρ μεταπεσόντα ἐκεῖνά ἐστι , κἀκεῖνα πάλιν μεταπεσόντα ταῦτα. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 10 5:2)
  • οὐ μὴν ἐπήρθη γε τῷ γάμῳ μετοικίσασθαι πρὸσ τὸν πενθερόν, ἀλλ’ αὐτοῦ περιέπων πατέρα γηραιὸν ἐν Σαβίνοισ ὑπέμενεν, ἅμα καὶ τῆσ Τατίασ ἑλομένησ τὴν τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἰδιωτεύοντοσ ἡσυχίαν πρὸ τῆσ ἐν Ῥώμῃ διὰ τὸν πατέρα τιμῆσ καὶ δόξησ, αὕτη μὲν οὖν λέγεται τρίτῳ καὶ δεκάτῳ μετὰ τὸν γάμον ἔτει τελευτῆσαι. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 3 7:1)
  • καὶ μέντοι γε τὸν Ἀναξαγόραν αὐτὸν λέγουσιν ἀσχολουμένου Περικλέουσ ἀμελούμενον κεῖσθαι συγκεκαλυμμένον ἤδη γηραιὸν ἀποκαρτεροῦντα· (Plutarch, , chapter 16 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. aged

Related

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

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