πρεσβύτατος (presbytatos)

πρεσβύτατος is an Ancient Greek form of πρέσβυς, meaning “old; elder, ambassador”. It is the nominative singular masculine adjective.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.157: πρεσβύτατος παίδων, ὅσσοι Πύλῳ ἐξεγένοντο

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 5.71.3: … ὰ κοινά. αἰδουμένων δʼ ἁπάντων, ἃ φρονοῦντες ἐτύγχανον, εἰς μέσον ἐκφέρειν καὶ μέχρι πολλοῦ τοῦτο ποιούντων ὁ πρεσβύτατός τε καὶ τιμιώτατος τῶν ὑπατικῶν γνώμην ἀπεδείξατο, διʼ ἧς ἀμφοτέρους ἐν ἴσῃ τιμῇ τοὺς ὑπάτους φυλάξας παρʼ αὐτ …

All forms of πρέσβυς (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.