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γηραιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γηραιός

Structure: γηραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gh=ras

Sense

aged, in old age

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	γηραιός	γήραιον
	Genitive	γηραιοῦ	γηραίου
	Dative	γηραιῷ	γηραίῳ
	Accusative	γηραιόν	γήραιον
	Vocative	γηραιέ	γήραιον
Dual	N/A/V	γηραιώ	γηραίω
Dual	G/D	γηραιοῖν	γηραίοιν
Plural	Nominative	γηραιοί	γήραια
	Genitive	γηραιῶν	γηραίων
	Dative	γηραιοῖς	γηραίοις
	Accusative	γηραιούς	γήραια
	Vocative	γηραιοί	γήραια

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	γηραιός γηραιοῦ	γηραιότερος γηραιοτεροῦ	γηραιότατος γηραιοτατοῦ
Adverb	γηραίως	γηραιότερον	γηραιότατα

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

ὅσοισ εἰσὶν ὑμῶν ἔτι νήπιοι, καὶ γαμετὰσ γυναῖκασ οὐ περιοψόμενοι παθεῖν πρὸσ ἐχθρῶν ἀνήκεστα, γηραιούσ τε πατέρασ τὸν ὀλίγον ἔτι χρόνον ἥδιστον βιῶναι παρασκευάσοντεσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 9 8:1)
ἢ καὶ πρὸσ τέλοσ ἴσωσ ἀνθρώπουσ ὁρῶν ἐλθόντασ γηραιούσ, παῖδασ παίδων καταλιπόντασ ἐν τιμαῖσ ταῖσ μεγίσταισ, ταράττῃ τὸ νῦν ἐν ἅπασι τούτοισ ἰδών, ἢ δι’ ἀκοῆσ αἰσθόμενοσ ἢ καὶ παντάπασιν αὐτὸσ αὐτόπτησ, προστυχὴσ πολλῶν ἀσεβημάτων καὶ δεινῶν γενομένων τισίν, δι’ αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἐκ σμικρῶν εἰσ τυραννίδασ τε καὶ τὰ μέγιστα ἀφικομένουσ· (Plato, Laws, book 10 92:1)
Ιὤσηποσ δὲ συνιεὶσ τὴν ἐπίνοιαν ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ μένοντοσ τείχουσ σὺν τοῖσ κεκμηκόσιν ἵστησι τοὺσ γηραιοὺσ ὡσ μηδὲν ταύτῃ βλαβησομένουσ, εἰσ δὲ τὰ παρερρωγότα τοῦ τείχουσ τοὺσ δυνατωτάτουσ καὶ πρὸ πάντων ἀνὰ ἓξ ἄνδρασ, μεθ’ ὧν καὶ αὐτὸσ εἰσ τὸ προκινδυνεύειν ἐκληρώσατο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 315:1)

Synonyms

aged
- παλαιός (old, aged)
- γηροκόμος (tending old age)
- δηναιός (old, aged, ancient)
- τηλίκος (of such an age, so old or so young, so young)
- αἰώνιος (For an age)
- γηροβοσκός (feeding or tending in old age)
- ὑπέργηρως (exceeding old, of extreme age, extreme old age)
- πρέσβυς (elderly, aged, old man)
- ὀψίγονος (late-born, born in one's old age)
- ἡλίκος (as old as)
- πρεσβυτικός (like an old man, elderly, of age)

ἐνήλικος (of age)
νεμέτωρ (an avenger)
ἄτεκνος (without children)
ἀνέκδοτος (not given in marriage)
τοκετός (birth)
εὔμοιρος (blest with possessions)
ὕπανδρος (under a man)
ὑιδοῦς (a grandson)
νεόγαμος (newly married)
εὐκτός (wished for)
βαρυθῡμίᾱ (sullenness)
φιλομήτωρ (loving one's mother)
πρεσβύτερος (older of two people)
ὑπέργηρως (exceeding old)
υἱωνός (a grandson)
ἧλιξ (of the same age)
ἀνύβριστος (not insulted)
ζηλωτός (to be emulated)
μητροπάτωρ (one's mother's father)
ἐπίγαμος (marriageable)
ἀποθνῄσκω (I die)
ὁμοπάτριος (by the same father)
ὀξύχολος (quick to anger)
ἀταφία (want of burial)
πενθικός (of or for mourning)
ἐπεῖδον (to look upon)
ἄωρος (untimely)
ἀκταῖος (on the coast)
περιώδυνος (exceeding painful)
Λυκάων (an inhabitant of Lycaonia)

Similar forms

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

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