γέρων

From Proto-Hellenic *géronts, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵérh₂onts (“old”). Cognates include Sanskrit जरत् (járan, “old man”), Old Armenian ծերուն (cerun), and Irish géaraid (“champion”).^[1]

γέρων • (gérōn) m (genitive γέροντος); third declension

1. an old man
2. (in the plural) elders, i.e. a ruling or advisory council
3. (as an adjective) old

• γραῦς (graûs)

• Greek: γέροντας (gérontas), γέρος (géros)
• → English: geronto-
• → French: géronto-
• → Italian: geronto-

• “γέρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γέρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γέρων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γέρων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• γέρων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γέρων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “γέρων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1088 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• γέρων in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dotard idem, page 248.
  • old idem, page 572.
  • old man idem, page 572.

γέρων • (géron)

1. genitive masculine plural of γέρος (géros)

γέρων • (géron) m

1. genitive plural of γέρος (géros)