πρεσβυ | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

An old man, elder; in the comparative sense, an older person (senior) as opposed to a younger. Also used substantively for a “chief” or “counsellor” as one of the elders of a community.

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PRESBUS

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Grammatical Analysis

"πρεσβυ"

Lemma candidate: πρέσβυς / πρέσβυς, -εως (comparative: πρεσβύτερος)

Form notes: The exact form πρεσβυ- is not a complete inflected word-form by itself in Classical/Koine Greek; it is the stem used to build inflected forms (e.g., πρέσβυς, πρέσβεις, πρέσβυν, πρέσβυτι-, πρεσβύτερος). Therefore case/number/gender/degree cannot be assigned unambiguously from πρεσβυ alone.

Related Forms of πρέσβυς

2 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

πρέσβυς nominative, singular, masculine (common-gender for... πρέσβεις nominative, plural, masculine

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