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πρεσβυτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβυτικός πρεσβυτική πρεσβυτικόν

Structure: πρεσβυτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from presbu=tis

Sense

  1. like an old man, elderly, of age
  2. old-fashioned, antiquated

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

  • λέγεται δὲ καθίσαντοσ αὐτοῦ τὸ πρῶτον ὑπὸ τὸν χρυσοῦν οὐρανίσκον ἐν τῷ βασιλικῷ θρόνῳ τὸν Κορίνθιον Δημάρατον εὔνουν ὄντα ἄνδρα καὶ πατρῷον φίλον Ἀλεξάνδρου πρεσβυτικῶσ ἐπιδακρῦσαι, καὶ εἰπεῖν ὡσ μεγάλησ ἡδονῆσ στεροῖντο τῶν Ἑλλήνων οἱ τεθνηκότεσ πρὶν ἰδεῖν Ἀλέξανδρον ἐν τῷ Δαρείου θρόνῳ καθήμενον. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 37 4:1)
  • ἔθυον γὰρ Ἑκαλήσια οἱ πέριξ δῆμοι συνιόντεσ Ἑκάλῳ Διί̈, καὶ τὴν Ἑκάλην ἐτίμων, Ἑκαλίνην ὑποκοριζόμενοι διὰ τὸ κἀκείνην νέον ὄντα κομιδῇ τὸν Θησέα ξενίζουσαν ἀσπάσασθαι πρεσβυτικῶσ καὶ φιλοφρονεῖσθαι τοιούτοισ ὑποκορισμοῖσ. (Plutarch, chapter 14 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. like an old man

  2. old-fashioned

Related

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

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