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πρεσβυγενής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβυγενής πρεσβυγενές

Structure: πρεσβυγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. eldest-born, first-born
  2. the senators

Examples

  • σύ τ’, ὦ λῦμ’ Ἀχαιῶν, τέκνων δέσποθ’ ἁμῶν, πρεσβυγενὲσ Πρίαμε, κοίμισαί μ’ ἐσ Αἵδου. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. eldest-born

  2. the senators

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

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