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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

  • συγχωρήσαντοσ δὲ τοῦ βασιλέωσ μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων φυγάδων κἀκείνῳ κατελθεῖν, ἀφικόμενοσ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ καὶ παρ’ ἑνὶ τῶν φίλων Προξένῳ καταχθεὶσ τὸ χρυσίον ἀπολλύει γηραιὸσ ὢν ἤδη καὶ τὰσ ὄψεισ ἀσθενήσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 31)
  • ὥστε καὶ σοῦ θαυμάζω, ὅπωσ γηραιὸσ ἤδη ἄνθρωποσ οὔτε ἰδίεισ πρὸσ τὸ θάλποσ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ οὔτε ὅλωσ ἐνοχλουμένῳ ἐοίκασ, οὐδὲ περιβλέπεισ σύσκιόν τι ἔνθα ὑποδύσῃ, ἀλλὰ δέχῃ τὸν ἥλιον εὐμαρῶσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 16:12)
  • γηραιὸσ δὲ θάνοισ ἕτερον παῖδ’ ἐγκαταλείπων. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 44:2)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀρσάκησ ‐ γηραιὸσ γὰρ ἤδη καὶ νὴ Δί̓ οὐκ ἄσεμνοσ τὴν ὄψιν ‐ ἐσ τὸ βαρβαρικὸν ἤχθετο καὶ ἠγανάκτει πεζὸσ βαδίζων καὶ ἠξίου τὸν ἵππον αὐτῷ προσαχθῆναι· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:1)
  • ὃσ ἄντικρυσ ἀποδὺσ τὸν τῆσ ἀρετῆσ χιτῶνα ἀνθινὰ μετημφιάσατο καὶ Μεταθέμενοσ καλούμενοσ ἔχαιρε, καίτοι γηραιὸσ ἀποστὰσ τῶν τῆσ στοᾶσ λόγων καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἐπίκουρον μεταπηδήσασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 14 2:4)

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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