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πρέσβις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρέσβις πρέσβιος

Structure: πρεσβι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for presbei/a

Sense

  1. age, age

Declension

Third 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

  • τοὺσ δὲ κατὰ πρέσβιν τε καὶ ὡσ γεγάασιν ἕκαστοσ ἀθανάτουσ ἐγέραιρε θεοὺσ Διὸσ ἀγλαὸσ υἱόσ, πάντ’ ἐνέπων κατὰ κόσμον, ἐπωλένιον κιθαρίζων. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 46:14)
  • ἔστω δὴ φανερὰ μὲν ἡ ψῆφοσ τιθεμένη, πρὸ τούτου δὲ κατὰ τὸ στόμα τοῦ διώκοντόσ τε καὶ φεύγοντοσ ὁ δικαστὴσ ἑξῆσ ἡμῖν ἐγγύτατα κατὰ πρέσβιν ἱζέσθω, πάντεσ δ’ οἱ πολῖται, ὅσοιπερ ἂν ἄγωσι σχολήν, ἐπήκοοι ἔστωσαν σπουδῇ τῶν τοιούτων δικῶν. (Plato, Laws, book 9 17:2)
  • καὶ πάσησ τῆσ ἐπιτροπῆσ καὶ τῶν ὀρφανῶν πεντεκαίδεκα τῶν νομοφυλάκων οἱ πρεσβύτατοι πάντων ἐπιμελείσθων ἀεὶ κατὰ πρέσβιν καὶ κατὰ τρεῖσ διελόμενοι σφᾶσ αὐτούσ, κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν τρεῖσ καὶ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἄλλον ἕτεροι τρεῖσ, ἑώσ ἂν αἱ πέντε περίοδοι γίγνωνται κύκλῳ· (Plato, Laws, book 11 74:2)

Synonyms

  1. age

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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