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πρεσβυγένεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβυγένεια

Structure: πρεσβυγενει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from presbugenh/s

Sense

  1. seniority of birth

Examples

  • τὸν Ὀρφικὸν καὶ ἱερὸν λόγον, ὃσ οὐκ ὄρνιθοσ μόνον τὸ ᾠὸν ἀποφαίνει πρεσβύτερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ συλλαβὼν ἅπασαν αὐτῷ τὴν ἁπάντων ὁμοῦ πρεσβυγένειαν ἀνατίθησι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 12:2)
  • κατὰ πρεσβυγένειαν καὶ βασιλεύουσιν οἱ ἐκ τοῦ γένουσ καὶ ἄλλασ ἀρχὰσ ἄρχουσι· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 49:9)

Synonyms

  1. seniority of birth

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

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