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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *géronts, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵérh₂onts. Cognates include Sanskrit जरत् (járan, “old man”), Old Armenian ծերուն (cerun), and Irish géaraid (“champion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡé.rɔːn/ → /ˈʝe.ron/ → /ˈʝe.ron/
Noun
γέρων • (gérōn) m (genitive γέροντος); third declension
- an old man
- (in the plural) elders, i.e. a ruling or advisory council
- (as an adjective) old
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Further reading
- “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.
Greek
Adjective
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- Genitive masculine plural form of γέρος (géros).
Noun
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- Genitive plural form of γέρος (géros).