gerousia

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1. 1
   noun

   in ancient Greece, a council of elders; specifically, the Spartan senate formed by twenty-eight elders and the two kings

   The Spartan gerousia prepared proposals for the citizen assembly and served as a high court.

Borrowed through Latin gerusia from Ancient Greek gerousia ("council of elders"), based on geron (genitive gerontos), "old man, elder," + -ia, a noun-forming suffix. The term is especially associated with Sparta's governing council of elders.

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