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πρεσβύτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβύτερος

Structure: πρεσβυτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. older of two people
  2. advanced in life, senior
  3. a term of rank or office, a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin
  4. in the New Testament, a group that presided over the assemblies or congregations

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἢν δὲ μὴ ’θέλῃ πρότερον προκρούειν ἀλλ’ ἐπιθυμῇ τῆσ νέασ, ταῖσ πρεσβυτέραισ γυναιξὶν ἔστω τὸν νέον ἕλκειν ἀνατεὶ λαβομένασ τοῦ παττάλου. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 2:8)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ γυναιξὶ πρεσβυτέραισ λόγουσ ἐπιταφίουσ διεξιέναι πάτριον ἦν Ῥωμαίοισ, νέαισ δὲ οὐκ ὂν ἐν ἔθει πρῶτοσ εἶπε Καῖσαρ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ γυναικὸσ ἀποθανούσησ· (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 5 2:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ πρὸσ σωφροσύνην συμφέρει τὰσ ἐκδόσεισ ποιεῖσθαι πρεσβυτέραισ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 279:5)
  • σεμνὸν γὰρ δῆλον ὅτι καὶ πρεσβυτέραισ πρέπον μᾶλλον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 58:6)

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