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παιδοποιία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδοποιία

Structure: παιδοποιι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from paidopoio/s

Sense

  1. procreation of children

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

  • οὔτε γὰρ γάμον οὔτε παιδοποιίαν τινὸσ οὔτε δίαιταν οὔτε συμπόσιον ᾤοντο δεῖν ἄκριτον καὶ ἀνεξέταστον, ὡσ ἕκαστοσ ἐπιθυμίασ ἔχοι καὶ προαιρέσεωσ, ἀφεῖσθαι. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 16 1:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐμοὶ ἡ τοῦ ὑέοσ τουτουί̈, εἴτε φυτείαν εἴτε παιδοποιίαν δεῖ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζειν, πάντων ῥᾴστη γέγονεν, ἡ δὲ τροφὴ δύσκολόσ τε καὶ ἀεὶ ἐν φόβῳ περὶ αὐτοῦ δεδιότι. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 4:3)
  • αἱ γὰρ ἁγνεῖαι καὶ παιδοποιίαν καὶ γέλωτα καὶ οἶνον καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἄλλωσ ἀξίων σπουδῆσ ἀφαιροῦσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 5:2)
  • τὸν γὰρ Δία μισγόμενον Ἀλκμήνῃ τριπλασίαν τὴν νύκτα ποιῆσαι, καὶ τῷ πλήθει τοῦ πρὸσ τὴν παιδοποιίαν ἀναλωθέντοσ χρόνου προσημῆναι τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆσ τοῦ γεννηθησομένου ῥώμησ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 9 2:3)
  • τελέσασ γὰρ τοὺσ ἄθλουσ τὴν μὲν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα Μεγάραν συνῴκισεν Ιὀλάῳ, διὰ τὴν περὶ τὰ τέκνα συμφορὰν ὑποπτευσάμενοσ τὴν ἐξ ἐκείνησ παιδοποιίαν, ἑτέραν δ’ ἐζήτει πρὸσ τέκνων γένεσιν ἀνύποπτον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 31 1:1)

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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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