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|etymtx=-αος</b>, <b class="b3">-ως<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">old age</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">γηραιός</b> [[old]] (Hes.; cf. <b class="b3">γεραιός</b> s. <b class="b3">γέρας</b>), <b class="b3">γηραλέος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Anakr.; after the adj. in <b class="b3">-αλέος</b>; not with Schwyzer 516 from an old <b class="b3">σ-</b>less stem), <b class="b3">γηράεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Alc., s. Chantr. Form. 272f.). Further <b class="b3">γήρειον</b> [[thistledown]] (Arat.) and <b class="b3">γηράνιον γεραν</b><<b class="b3">ογέρων</b>> H.; cf. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 159 n. 1; <b class="b3">γηράμων</b> H., glossed as (*)<b class="b3">γράζα</b>. - <b class="b3">γηράσκω</b> <b class="b2">get old</b> (Il.), aor. 3. sg. <b class="b3">ἐγήρα</b>, ptc. <b class="b3">γηράς</b> (Il.), inf. <b class="b3">γηράναι</b> or <b class="b3">γηρᾶναι</b> (A., cf. Schwyzer 682); aor. <b class="b3">ἐγήρασα</b> (Hdt.; also as causative like <b class="b3">ἔφυσα</b>: <b class="b3">ἔφυν</b>, Schwyzer 755<b class="b3">γ</b>); fut. <b class="b3">γηράσομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-σω</b> (Ion.-Att.), later <b class="b3">γεγήρακα</b>, <b class="b3">ἐγηράθην</b>. New present <b class="b3">γηράω</b> (X.); aor. <b class="b3">γηρείς</b> (Xenoph.) after <b class="b3">δαμείς</b>. - From <b class="b3">γηράσκω</b>: <b class="b3">γηράσιμος</b> <b class="b2">getting older</b> (Tlos), and <b class="b3">γήρανσις</b> (Arist.) after <b class="b3">ὑγίανσις</b> (Chantraine 281).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [390] <b class="b2">*ǵerh₂-</b> <b class="b2">be, become old</b><br />Etymology: Beside <b class="b3">γέρας</b> wit remarkable long vowel, which has been explained as coming from the s-aorist, but this cannot be shown (Hardarsson, Wurzelaorist (1993) 72-6).Vgl. [[γέρας]], [[γέρων]], [[γραῦς]].

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