παιδονόμος
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
παιδονόμος
παιδονόμου
Structure:
παιδονομ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- (chiefly plural, of a board of magistrates) supervisor of education
Declension
Second 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.
- οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ παιδονόμοσ ἐκ τῶν καλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐτάττετο, καὶ κατ’ ἀγέλασ αὐτοὶ προΐσταντο τῶν λεγομένων εἰρένων ἀεὶ τὸν σωφρονέστατον καὶ μαχιμώτατον. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 17 2:1)
- εἰσὶ δὲ αἱ μὲν πολιτικαὶ τῶν ἐπιμελειῶν, ἢ πάντων τῶν πολιτῶν πρόσ τινα πρᾶξιν, οἱο͂ν στρατηγὸσ στρατευομένων, ἢ κατὰ μέροσ, οἱο͂ν ὁ γυναικονόμοσ ἢ παιδονόμοσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 244:1)
- παιδονόμοσ δὲ καὶ γυναικονόμοσ, καὶ εἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἄρχων κύριόσ ἐστι τοιαύτησ ἐπιμελείασ, ἀριστοκρατικόν, δημοκρατικὸν δ’ οὔ πῶσ γὰρ οἱο͂́ν τε κωλύειν ἐξιέναι τὰσ τῶν ἀπόρων; (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 260:3)
- ὁ δὲ Λυκοῦργοσ, ἀντὶ μὲν τοῦ ἰδίᾳ ἕκαστον παιδαγωγοὺσ δούλουσ ἐφιστάναι, ἄνδρα ἐπέστησε κρατεῖν αὐτῶν ἐξ ὧνπερ αἱ μέγισται ἀρχαὶ καθίστανται, ὃσ δὴ καὶ παιδονόμοσ καλεῖται, τοῦτον δὲ κύριον ἐποίησε καὶ ἁθροίζειν τοὺσ παῖδασ καὶ ἐπισκοποῦντα, εἴ τισ ῥᾳδιουργοίη, ἰσχυρῶσ κολάζειν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 3:1)
- ὅπωσ δὲ μηδ’ εἰ ὁ παιδονόμοσ ἀπέλθοι, ἔρημοί ποτε οἱ παῖδεσ εἰε͂ν ἄρχοντοσ, ἐποίησε τὸν ἀεὶ παρόντα τῶν πολιτῶν κύριον εἶναι καὶ ἐπιτάττειν τοῖσ παισὶν ὅ τι ἂν ἀγαθὸν δοκοίη εἶναι, καὶ κολάζειν, εἴ τι ἁμαρτάνοιεν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 11:1)
