Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γρηῦς ‎(greûs) Ionic
• γραῦῐς ‎(graûis) Doric
• γρηΰς ‎(grēǘs) Poetic

Noun

γραῦς • ‎(graûs) f ‎(genitive γρᾱός); third declension

1. an old woman

Inflection

References

• γραῦς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γραῦς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «γραῦς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «γραῦς» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beldam idem, page 72.
  • dame idem, page 194.
  • hag idem, page 380.
  • matron idem, page 518.
  • old woman idem, page 572.
  • witch idem, page 983.
  • woman idem, page 986.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “γραῦς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 285