γέροντος (gerontos)

γέροντος is an Ancient Greek form of γέρων, meaning “old man, elder”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 123 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.243: Ζήτης, ἀσχαλόωντος ἑλὼν χερὶ χεῖρα γέροντος·

Plato, Republic 9.574: … πότε δὲ μὴ δύναιτο, ἁρπάζοι ἂν καὶ βιάζοιτο μετὰ τοῦτο; οἶμαι, ἔφη. ἀντεχομένων δὴ καὶ μαχομένων, ὦ θαυμάσιε, γέροντός τε καὶ γραός, ἆρʼ εὐλαβηθείη ἂν καὶ φείσαιτο μή τι δρᾶσαι τῶν τυραννικῶν; οὐ πάνυ, ἦ δʼ ὅς, ἔγωγε θαρρῶ περὶ …

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.