Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • "πατρὶ πενθοῦντι παραμύθιον ἐλθὲ καὶ πρεσβυτικῇ χειρὶ δυστυχούσῃ συναγώνισαι. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 21:5)
  • ἡνίκ’ ἂν δέ γε τούτουσ ἀκριβώσητε περιηρμοσμέναι, καὶ θαἰμάτια τἀνδρεῖά γ’ ἅπερ ἐκλέψατε ἐπαναβάλεσθε, κᾆτα ταῖσ βακτηρίαισ ἐπερειδόμεναι βαδίζετ’ ᾄδουσαι μέλοσ πρεσβυτικόν τι, τὸν τρόπον μιμούμεναι τὸν τῶν ἀγροίκων. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 7:28)
  • πρεσβυτικῶν μὲν οὖν κακῶν ἔγωγ’ ἔχοντα σωρόν. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Parodos13)
  • ποῖοσ οὐκ ὄχλοσ περιεστεφάνωσεν ἐν ἀγορᾷ πρεσβυτικόσ; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode8)
  • ὦ Ποντοπόσειδον καὶ θεοὶ πρεσβυτικοί, ἐν τῷ προσώπῳ τῶν ῥυτίδων ὅσασ ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:43)
  • οὐ γὰρ πρεσβυτικόσ γε ὁ καιρὸσ οὐδὲ ἐπιτήδειοσ τοῖσ τρυφῶσι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 9:2)

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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