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παίδειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παίδειος

Structure: παιδει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = paidiko/s

Sense

  1. of or for a boy, of rearing children, a mother's

Examples

  • ΑΥΤΑΙ αἱ παιδεῖαι Σολομῶντοσ αἱ ἀδιάκριτοι, ἃσ ἐξεγράψαντο οἱ φίλοι Ἐζεκίου τοῦ βασιλέωσ τῆσ Ἰουδαίασ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 25:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁρῶμεν ὅτι αἱ παιδεῖαι ποιούσ τινασ ποιοῦσι τοὺσ νέουσ, ἀναγκαῖον καὶ παρασκευασάμενον τρέφειν οἷσ τὰ ἐλευθέρια τῶν ἔργων προστακτέον. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 24:5)
  • "Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ ἔθη καὶ παιδεῖαι καὶ διδασκαλίαι καὶ βίων ἀγωγαί, καὶ ἐγὼ ταῦθ’ ὑμῖν αὐτίκα δὴ μάλα ποιήσω φανερά" εἶτα προσαγαγὼν τοὺσ δύο σκύλακασ διαφῆκε, καταθεὶσ εἰσ μέσον λοπάδα καὶ λαγωὸν κατευθὺ τῶν σκυλάκων. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 4 18:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ διαφέρουσιν αἱ καθ’ ἕκαστον παιδεῖαι τῶν κοινῶν, ὥσπερ ἐπ’ ἰατρικῆσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 147:2)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a boy

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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