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

  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ στρυφνοῖσ καὶ πρεσβυτικοῖσ ἧττον γίνεται ἡ φιλία, ὅσῳ δυσκολώτεροί εἰσι καὶ ἧττον ταῖσ ὁμιλίαισ χαίρουσιν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 56:1)

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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