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πρέσβυς • ‎(présbus) m

elderly, aged
1. (masculine substantive) old man
  - Sophocles, Oedipus the King 941
2. (masculine substantive) elder, chief, prince
  - Aeschylus, Agamemnon 184,205,530
3. (superlative) revered, honored
ambassador
- Aeschylus, The Suppliants 728
(at Sparta) a political title, higher than γέρων ‎(gérōn, “senator”): chief, president
- Inscriptiones Laconiae 1237, 1326
a name of the τρόχιλος ‎(trókhilos, “wren”)
Aristotle, History of Animals 9.11,5
1. a type of daw or chough
  - Aristotle, History of Animals 9.1,15

For the feminine, see πρέσβα ‎(présba), πρέσβειρα ‎(présbeira), πρεσβηίς ‎(presbēís).

Declension of πρέσβυς, πρέσβεως

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	πρέσβυς	πρέσβη	πρέσβεις
Genitive	πρέσβεως		πρέσβεων
Dative	πρέσβει		πρέσβεσιν
Accusative	πρέσβυν	πρέσβη	πρέσβεις
Vocative	πρέσβυ

Dialectal forms:
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πρέσβυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πρέσβυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πρέσβυς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
«πρέσβυς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
«πρέσβυς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
πρέσβυς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
“G4245”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ambassador idem, page 26.
- commissioner idem, page 148.
- deputy idem, page 213.
- envoy idem, page 279.
- legate idem, page 484.
- old man idem, page 572.

πρέσβυς • ‎(présvys) m ‎(plural πρέσβεις, feminine πρέσβειρα)