Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πάλαος ‎(pálaos) (Aeolic)
• παλεός ‎(paleós) (Laconian)
• παληός ‎(palēós) (Boeotian)

Adjective

παλαιός • ‎(palaiós) m ‎(feminine παλαιά, neuter παλαιόν); first/second declension

1. old, aged
2. ancient, of times past
3. time-honoured, venerable
4. antiquated, outdated

Inflection

Derived terms

• παλαιότης ‎(palaiótēs)
• παλαιόω ‎(palaióō)
• παλαιῶς ‎(palaiôs)

References

• παλαιός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παλαιός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παλαιός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «παλαιός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «παλαιός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• παλαιός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3820”, 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.
  • aged idem, page 18.
  • ancient idem, page 29.
  • antiquated idem, page 32.
  • antique idem, page 32.
  • by-gone idem, page 107.
  • date idem, page 196.
  • disuse idem, page 243.
  • early idem, page 258.
  • effete idem, page 262.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • former idem, page 339.
  • hackneyed idem, page 380.
  • immemorial idem, page 417.
  • obsolete idem, page 567.
  • old idem, page 572.
  • old-fashioned idem, page 572.
  • past idem, page 597.
  • played out idem, page 618.
  • primeval idem, page 641.
  • primitive idem, page 641.
  • pristine idem, page 642.
  • stale idem, page 809.
  • superannuated idem, page 838.
  • threadbare idem, page 869.
  • trite idem, page 896.
  • unfashionable idem, page 917.

Greek

Alternative forms

• παλιός ‎(paliós)

Usage notes

In general, for positive forms, παλιός is more common than παλαιός, however with the degrees of comparison forms inflected from παλαιότερος and παλαιότατος are more frequent than those from παλιότερος and παλιότατος.

Adjective

παλαιός • ‎(palaiós) m ‎(feminine παλαιά, neuter παλαιό)

1. long established, old, former, not modern, worn out

Declension

See also

• γέρος ‎(géros) (old, aged, elderly)
• ηλικιωμένος ‎(ilikioménos) (old, aged, elderly)