The corpus record — Latin

gerusia

gerusia · f

the place of meeting for a council of old men

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

gĕrūsĭa — Lewis & Short

gĕrūsĭa, ae, f., = gerousi/a,

I the place of meeting for a council of old men, senatehouse in a Grecian city (= senaculum), Varr. L. L. 5, 32, § 156.—

II A public hospital or retreat in Sardes, for old men who had deserved well of their country, Vitr. 4, 8; Plin. 35, 14, 49, § 172; Plin. Ep. 10, 42.

In the wild

gerusiam Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.8.10
Gerusian Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.33.1
gerusian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.14.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.