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παιδιή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδιή παιδιῆς

Structure: παιδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pai/zw

Sense

  1. childish play, sport, game, pastime, a game, in sport, mere child's play

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "χρῶ τῇ κλεπτικῇ, ἅλισ σοι αἱ ἐν οὐρανῷ παιδιαί· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 4:6)
  • "καίτοι μείζονάσ γε παραλλαγὰσ αἱ ἡλικίαι περὶ ἕκαστον ἡμῶν ποιοῦσιν ἢ κοινῇ περὶ τὰσ πόλεισ γνοίη γὰρ ἄν τισ ἰδὼν τὰσ Ἀθήνασ ἔτει τριακοστῷ, καὶ τὰ νῦν ἤθη καὶ κινήματα παιδιαί τε καὶ σπουδαὶ καὶ χάριτεσ καὶ ὀργαὶ τοῦ δήμου πάνυ γε τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ ἐοίκασι· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 159)
  • διὸ αἱ ῥαθυμίαι καὶ αἱ ἀπονίαι καὶ αἱ ἀμέλειαι καὶ αἱ παιδιαὶ καὶ αἱ ἀναπαύσεισ καὶ ὁ ὕπνοσ τῶν ἡδέων· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 4:4)
  • Εἰδέναι δὲ χρὴ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ, ὅτι ἐξ οὐδενὸσ ἡμῖν αἱ ἡδοναὶ γίνονται καὶ αἱ εὐφροσύναι καὶ γέλωτεσ καὶ παιδιαὶ ἢ ἐντεῦθεν, καὶ λῦπαι καὶ ἀνίαι καὶ υσφροσύναι καὶ κλαυθμοί. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.1)
  • ὅσαι δ’ ἄνευ σπουδῆσ ἐπεισκωμάζουσι τοῖσ συμποσίοισ παιδιαί, ταύτασ ἐπιμελῶσ διακελεύσεται τοῖσ συμπόταισ εὐλαβεῖσθαι, μὴ λάθωσιν ὕβριν καὶ ἀσέλγειαν καθάπερ ὑοσκύαμον λαβόντεσ οἴνῳ τοῖσ λεγομένοισ προστάγμασιν ἐξυβρίζωσι, προστάττοντεσ ᾄδειν ψελλοῖσ ἢ κτενίζεσθαι φαλακροῖσ ἢ ἀσκωλιάζειν χωλοῖσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 8:16)

Synonyms

  1. childish play

Derived

Similar forms

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

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