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παιδευτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδευτός παιδευτή παιδευτόν

Structure: παιδευτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from paideu/w

Sense

  1. to be gained by education

Examples

  • ταὐτὸν δή μοι τοῦθ’ ἡ βασιλικὴ φαίνεται πᾶσι τοῖσ κατὰ νόμον παιδευταῖσ καὶ τροφεῦσιν, τὴν τῆσ ἐπιστατικῆσ αὐτὴ δύναμιν ἔχουσα, οὐκ ἐπιτρέψειν ἀσκεῖν ὅτι μή τισ πρὸσ τὴν αὑτῆσ σύγκρασιν ἀπεργαζόμενοσ ἦθόσ τι πρέπον ἀποτελεῖ, ταῦτα δὲ μόνα παρακελεύεσθαι παιδεύειν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 310:3)
  • κατὰ μὲν γὰρ τὴν τοῦ παιδὸσ ἡλικίαν παιδευταῖσ ἐχρήσατο τοῖσ ἀρίστοισ, ἀνδρωθεὶσ δὲ συνδιέτριψε τοῖσ μεγίστην ἔχουσι δύναμιν ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίᾳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 1 4:1)
  • ἐπεδέξαντο γὰρ σίτου μυριάδασ ὀκτὼ καὶ εἴκοσι παρ’ Εὐμένουσ χάριν τοῦ τὸ λογευθὲν ἐκ τούτων δανείζεσθαι, τὸν δὲ τόκον εἰσ τοὺσ μισθοὺσ ὑπάρχειν τοῖσ παιδευταῖσ καὶ διδασκάλοισ τῶν υἱῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 31, ii. res graeciae 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be gained by education

Derived

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

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