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γέροντας (gerontas)

γέροντας is an Ancient Greek form of γέρων, meaning “old man, elder”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 81 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 956: τοὺς μὲν γέροντας, τοὺς δὲ νηπίους ἔτι.

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 410: πρὸς τοὺς γέροντάς θʼ οἳ πρὸ τοῦ τὰς μείρακας

All forms of γέρων (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.