ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΕΡΑ, παλαιοτερα
PALAIOTERA, palaiotera
Sounds Like: pa-lie-OH-teh-rah
Translations: older, more ancient, former, earlier
From the root: ΠΑΛΑΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'older' or 'more ancient'. It is the comparative form of 'palaios' (old). It is used to describe something that existed or happened at an earlier time compared to something else. For example, it could describe an older building, an earlier custom, or a more ancient event.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative, Neuter; or Singular, Nominative, or Vocative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3820 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 8:170
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΛΑΙΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΑΛΑΙΑΝ — old, ancient, former, a former
- ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ — old, ancient, former, of old, of ancient times
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΙ — old, ancient, former, a former
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΙΣ — old, ancient, former, of old, of ancient things
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΝ — old, ancient, former, an old thing, the old
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΣ — old, ancient, former
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΑ — oldest, most ancient, most antiquated, most worn out
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΝ — oldest, most ancient, the oldest, the most ancient
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΥ — (of) oldest, (of) most ancient, (of) very old
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΩΝ — of the oldest, of the most ancient
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΕΡΟΙΣ — older, more ancient, more aged, more old
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΕΡΩΝ — older, of older things, of older ones, more ancient, of more ancient things, of more ancient ones
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΥ — of old, of ancient, old, ancient, former
- ΠΑΛΑΙΟΥΣ — old, ancient, former, worn out
- ΠΑΛΑΙΩΝ — of old, of ancient, of former, of worn out
- ΠΑΛΕΩΣΙΝ — old, ancient, former, worn out
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