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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παιδοποιία παιδοποιίᾱ παιδοποιίαι
Genitive παιδοποιίᾱς παιδοποιίαιν παιδοποιιῶν
Dative παιδοποιίᾱͅ παιδοποιίαιν παιδοποιίαις
Accusative παιδοποιίᾱν παιδοποιίᾱ παιδοποιίᾱς
Vocative παιδοποιίᾱ παιδοποιίᾱ παιδοποιίαι

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

  • ἡ δὲ παιδοποιία καὶ φυλακὴ τῶν παιδοποιουμένων δεκέτισ ἔστω, μὴ πλείω δὲ χρόνον, ὅταν εὔροια ᾖ τῆσ γενέσεωσ· (Plato, Laws, book 6 227:1)
  • ἐν τοῖσ γάμοισ τοίνυν καὶ παιδοποιίαισ ἐοίκε τὸ ὀρθὸν τοῦτο γίγνεσθαι οὐκ ἐλάχιστον. (Plato, Republic, book 5 248:1)
  • ἦν γὰρ ἡ παιδοποιί̈α σου ἀπὸ Ἁβραὰμ τοῦ πατρόσ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 17:6)
  • οὕτω γὰρ κέχρηται καὶ τῷ ἑαυτοῦ σώματι καὶ παιδοποιίᾳ, ὥστ’ ἐμὲ μὴ βούλεσθαι λέγειν ἃ τούτῳ πέπρακται· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 174 1:3)
  • προσεχέτω δὴ καὶ ὁ νυμφίοσ τῇ τε νύμφῃ καὶ τῇ παιδοποιίᾳ τὸν νοῦν, κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὲ καὶ ἡ νύμφη, τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον διαφερόντωσ ὃν ἂν μήπω παῖδεσ αὐτοῖσ ὦσιν γεγονότεσ. (Plato, Laws, book 6 224:2)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν, ὦ πρὸσ Διόσ, προσέσχηκάσ τι τοῖσ τούτων γάμοισ τε καὶ παιδοποιίᾳ; (Plato, Republic, book 5 227:4)

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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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