γέρων
See also: γερών
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡé.rɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡe.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈʝe.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈʝe.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈʝe.ron/
Noun
γέρων • (gérōn) m (genitive γέροντος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ γέρων ho gérōn |
τὼ γέροντε tṑ géronte |
οἱ γέροντες hoi gérontes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ γέροντος toû gérontos |
τοῖν γερόντοιν toîn geróntoin |
τῶν γερόντων tôn geróntōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ γέροντῐ tōî gérontĭ |
τοῖν γερόντοιν toîn geróntoin |
τοῖς γέρουσῐ / γέρουσῐν toîs gérousĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν γέροντᾰ tòn gérontă |
τὼ γέροντε tṑ géronte |
τοὺς γέροντᾰς toùs gérontăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γέρον géron |
γέροντε géronte |
γέροντες gérontes | ||||||||||
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Coordinate terms
- γραῦς (graûs)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: γέροντας (gérontas), γέρος (géros)
- → English: geronto-
- → French: géronto-
- → Italian: geronto-
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γέρων”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 268-9
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 (2006–2025)
- “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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Adjective
γέρων • (géron)
- genitive masculine plural of γέρος (géros)
Noun
γέρων • (géron) m
- genitive plural of γέρος (géros)