little old man
Dim. of γέρων, little old man, Hp. Ep. 13, Ar. Ach. 993, X. An. 6.3.22, Theoc. 4.58, Luc. Bacch. 3.
II Senate
the Carthaginian Senate, Plb. 6.51.2 (v.l. γεροντικόν).
The corpus record
γερόντ-ιον
gerontion · τό
little old man
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Where it lives
- Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- γεροντίῳ · gerontiōi Epictetus, Discourses 2.6 (DIORISIS sentence 2157)
- γερόντια · gerontia Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.22 (DIORISIS sentence 2777)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.