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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 Νέστορι δ’ ἤδη ὄντι γηραιῷ καὶ Φοίνικι δὲ κρέασ ὀπτὸν δίδωσι ἀφιστῶν ἡμᾶσ τῶν ἀτάκτων ἐπιθυμιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 15 2:4)
  • ὅτι δὲ γηραιῷ ὄντι τῷ Σοφοκλεῖ συνῆν ἡ Ἀρχίππη, ὁ πρότεροσ αὐτῆσ ἐραστὴσ Σμικρίνησ ἐρωτώμενοσ ὑπό τινοσ τί πράττει Ἀρχίππη χαριέντωσ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 61 2:5)
  • Ἀτθὶσ δ’ οἱᾶ μέλισσα πολυπρήωνα Κολώνην λείπουσ1’ ἐν τραγικαῖσ ᾖδε χοροστασίαισ Βάκχον καὶ τὸν Ἔρωτα Θεωρίδοσ Ἠριγόνησ τε ἅσ ποτε γηραιῷ Ζεὺσ ἔπορεν Σοφοκλεῖ . (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 7:3)
  • ᾧ συνέβη μετὰ τὴν παρὰ τῷ λαῷ δόξαν γηραιῷ τελευτῆσαι τὸν βίον καὶ ταφῆναι μετὰ πολλῆσ φιλοτιμίασ ἐν Ιἑροσολύμοισ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 192:1)

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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