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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 οὕτωσ διάγοντεσ τὸν βίον ἐν εἰρήνῃ μετὰ ὑγιείασ, ὡσ εἰκόσ, γηραιοὶ τελευτῶντεσ ἄλλον τοιοῦτον βίον τοῖσ ἐκγόνοισ παραδώσουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 14 4:5)
  • οἱ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν ἱερεῖσ οἵ τε γηραιοὶ τῶν ὑπατικῶν καὶ θριαμβικῶν ἀνδρῶν τὴν μὲν πόλιν ἐκλιπεῖν οὐχ ὑπέμειναν, ἱερὰσ δὲ καὶ λαμπρὰσ ἀναλαβόντεσ ἐσθῆτασ, ἐξηγουμένου Φαβίου τοῦ ἀρχιερέωσ, ἐπευξάμενοι τοῖσ θεοῖσ, ὡσ ἑαυτοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ πατρίδοσ τῷ δαίμονι καθιεροῦντεσ, ἐπὶ τῶν ἐλεφαντίνων δίφρων ἐν ἀγορᾷ ἐκάθηντο κεκοσμημένοι, τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν τύχην ὑπομένοντεσ. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 21 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ Οὐϊτελλίου πολλῶν ἀγώνων ἐθάδεσ, ἤδη δὲ γηραιοὶ καὶ παρακμάζοντεσ. (Plutarch, Otho, chapter 12 3:3)
  • Γηραιοὶ μὲν οὐ ξυνεχέεσ πάσχειν· διαδιδρήσκουσι δὲ ἥκιστα· νέοι δὲ μέχρι ἀκμῆσ ἀπὸ αἵματοσ ἀναγωγῆσ φθινώδεεσ γίγνονται, καὶ ὑγιάζον ται μὲν, οὐ Ῥηϊδίωσ δέ· παιδία ξυνεχῶσ τῇ βηχὶ μέχρι φθόησ κοτὲ Ῥηϊδίωσ ὑγιάζεται· ἕξιεσ δὲ Ῥαδινοὶ, σανιδώδεεσ , πτερυγώδεεσ, ἐξεχέβρογχοι, λευκοὶ, ἀραιότεροι τὸν θώρηκα· χῶραι δὲ ψυχραὶ καὶ ὑγραὶ, ὁκόσαι τῷ εἴδεϊ τοῦ πάθεοσ ἀδελφαί. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 159)
  • καὶ μιᾷ διανοίᾳ χρησάμενοι πάντεσ ἐλευθεροῦτε ἀπὸ τῶν τυράννων τὴν πατρίδα, ἐν ᾗ θεῶν τε ὑμῖν ἱερὰ ἵδρυται καὶ θῆκαι προγόνων εἰσίν, οὓσ ὑμεῖσ τιμᾶτε μετὰ θεούσ, καὶ γηραιοὶ πατέρεσ τροφεῖα πολλὰ καὶ ἄξια τῶν πόνων ἀπαιτοῦντεσ, γυναῖκέσ τε κατὰ νόμουσ ἐγγυηθεῖσαι καὶ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 40 9:1)

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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