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πρέσβος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρέσβος πρέσβεος

Structure: πρεσβο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: presbu/s

Sense

  1. an object of reverence, august assembly of

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

  • βασίλεια γύναι, πρέσβοσ Πέρσαισ, σύ τε πέμπε χοὰσ θαλάμουσ ὑπὸ γῆσ, ἡμεῖσ θ’ ὕμνοισ αἰτησόμεθα φθιμένων πομποὺσ εὔφρονασ εἶναι κατὰ γαίασ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests1)
  • ἄνδρεσ πολῖται, πρέσβοσ Ἀργείων τόδε, οὐκ αἰσχυνοῦμαι τοὺσ φιλάνορασ τρόπουσ λέξαι πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 5:1)
  • ὡσ ὧδ’ ἐχόντων, πρέσβοσ Ἀργείων τόδε, χαίροιτ’ ἄν, εἰ χαίροιτ’, ἐγὼ δ’ ἐπεύχομαι. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. an object of reverence

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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