παλαιός

• πάλαος (pálaos) — Aeolic
• παλεός (paleós) — Laconian
• παληός (palēós) — Boeotian

From πάλαι (pálai, “long ago”) +‎ -ος (-os, “adjectival suffix”).^[1] Likely cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀨𐀍 (pa-ra-jo), which has been argued to mean “old”; this connection points to a Proto-Hellenic *palai(y)ós and casts doubt on the popularly proposed etymology from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.^[2]

πᾰλαιός • (palaiós) m (feminine πᾰλαιᾱ́, neuter πᾰλαιόν); first/second declension

1. old, aged

   Synonym: γεραιός (geraiós)

2. ancient, of times past

   Synonym: ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)

3. time-honoured, venerable
4. antiquated, outdated

• πᾰλαιορᾰ́φος (palaioráphos)
• παλαιότης (palaiótēs)
• παλαιόω (palaióō)
• παλαιῶς (palaiôs)

• Greek: παλιός (paliós)
• → English: paleo-, palaeo-
• → Irish: pailé-
• → German: paläo-
• → French: paléo-

• “παλαιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παλαιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “παλαιός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• παλαιός 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
• παλαιός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “παλαιός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3820 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • aged idem, page 18.
  • ancient idem, page 29.
  • antiquated idem, page 32.
  • antique idem, page 32.
  • by-gone idem, page 107.
  • date idem, page 196.
  • disuse idem, page 243.
  • early idem, page 258.
  • effete idem, page 262.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • former idem, page 339.
  • hackneyed idem, page 380.
  • immemorial idem, page 417.
  • obsolete idem, page 567.
  • old idem, page 572.
  • old-fashioned idem, page 572.
  • past idem, page 597.
  • played out idem, page 619.
  • primeval idem, page 641.
  • primitive idem, page 641.
  • pristine idem, page 642.
  • stale idem, page 809.
  • superannuated idem, page 838.
  • threadbare idem, page 869.
  • trite idem, page 896.
  • unfashionable idem, page 917.

• παλιός (paliós)

παλαιός • (palaiós) m (feminine παλαιά, neuter παλαιό)

1. long established, old, former, not modern, worn out

• In general, for positive forms, παλιός is more common than παλαιός, however with the degrees of comparison forms inflected from παλαιότερος and παλαιότατος are more frequent than those from παλιότερος and παλιότατος.

• γέρος (géros) (old, aged, elderly)
• ηλικιωμένος (ilikioménos) (old, aged, elderly)