gerousiva
gerousiva , hJ , ( gevrwn ) a Council of Elders, Senate, Eur.
II. = presbeiva , Id.
gerouvsio"
gerouvsio" , a, on , ( gevrwn ) for or befitting the seniors or chiefs, Il.; g. o{rko" an oath taken by them, Ib.
gevrron
gevrron , tov , ( ei[rw ) anything made of wicker-work:
I.
an oblong shield,
covered with ox-hide, such as the Persians used,
Hdt.
,
Xen.
II.
gevrra, tav
,
wattled huts,
or
booths,
used in the Athen. market-place,
Dem.
III.
the wicker body
of a car,
Strab.
gerrofovroi
gerro-fovroi , oiJ , ( fevrw ) a kind of troops that used wicker shields, Xen.
gevrwn, GE vRWN, gevrwn
GE vRWN , onto", oJ , an old man, Hom ., etc.
2. in political sense, gevronte" the Elders, Seniors, or Chiefs, who formed the Kings Council, Hom. :—then, like Lat. Patres , the Senators, esp. at Sparta, Hdt.
II. as Adj. old, mostly with a masc. Noun, Theogn. , Aesch. , etc. ; but gevron savko" occurs in Od.
geu`ma
geu`ma , ato", tov , ( geuvw ) a taste, smack of a thing, Eur. , Ar.
geuvmeqa
geuvmeqa , 1 pl. poët. for geuovmeqa , pf. med. of geuvw .
geustevon
geustevon , verb. Adj. of geuvw , one must make to taste, tinav tino" Plat.
geuvw, GEU vW
GEU vW , f. geuvsw : aor. I e[geusa :— Med. , f. geuvsomai : aor. I ejgeusavmhn , subj. geuvsetai, -sovmeqa , Ep. for -htai, -wvmeqa : pf. gevgeumai :— to give a taste of, ti Hdt .; rarely tinav ti Eur .; or tinav tino" Plat. : cf. geustevon .
II.
Med.
geuvomai
, with
pf. pass
.,
to taste of
a thing,
c. gen
., Od.,
Thuc.
2.
metaph.
to taste, feel,
douro;" ajkwkh`", oji>stou` geuvsasqai
Hom
.;
geusovmeqÆ ajllhvlwn ejgceivai"
let us try
one another with the spear, Il.:
to taste the sweets of,
ajrch`", ejleuqerivh"
Hdt
.;
to have experience of,
movcqwn, pevnqou"
Soph
.,
Eur.
(The Root was prob.
GEUS
,
cf. Lat.
gus-tare
.)
gevfura
gevfu<Eth>ra , hJ , a dyke, dam or mound to bar a stream, in pl. , Il.; the phrase polevmoio gefuvrai seems to mean the ground between two lines of battle, = metaivcmion , Ib.
II. a bridge, to cross a stream, Hdt. , Att. ; Hom. also seems to recognise this sense in the Verb gefurovw .