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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

  • τοιαῦτα τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εἰπόντοσ, ὁ φιλόσοφοσ ὁρ́α οἱάν ἀπόκρισιν ἀπεκρίνατο, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, ὡσ πρεσβυτικήν· (Lucian, 171:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν δεῖ γε ἡμᾶσ τοῦτο ἐν τῷ νῦν σκοποῦντασ καὶ ἐξετάζοντασ, περὶ νόμων παίζοντασ παιδιὰν πρεσβυτικὴν σώφρονα, διελθεῖν τὴν ὁδὸν ἀλύπωσ, ὡσ ἔφαμεν ἡνίκα ἠρχόμεθα πορεύεσθαι. (Plato, Laws, book 3 54:4)

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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