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παιδοτρίβης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδοτρίβης παιδοτρίβου

Structure: παιδοτριβ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: tri/bw

Sense

  1. one who teaches boys wrestling and other exercises, a gymnastic master, his

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παιδοτρίβης παιδοτρίβᾱ παιδοτρίβαι
Genitive παιδοτρίβου παιδοτρίβαιν παιδοτριβῶν
Dative παιδοτρίβῃ παιδοτρίβαιν παιδοτρίβαις
Accusative παιδοτρίβην παιδοτρίβᾱ παιδοτρίβᾱς
Vocative παιδοτρίβα παιδοτρίβᾱ παιδοτρίβαι

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

  • ἀλλὰ μὴν εἰσάγονταί γ’ ἐφ’ ἑαυτοὺσ οἱ ἰατροὶ κάμνοντεσ ἄλλουσ ἰατροὺσ καὶ οἱ παιδοτρίβαι γυμναζόμενοι παιδοτρίβασ, ὡσ οὐ δυνάμενοι κρίνειν τὸ ἀληθὲσ διὰ τὸ κρίνειν περί τε οἰκείων καὶ ἐν πάθει ὄντεσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 290:1)
  • καὶ οἵ τε δὴ ἄλλοι δημιουργοὶ καὶ οὓσ νυνδὴ ἐλέγομεν, οἱ περὶ τὸ σῶμα, παιδοτρίβαι τε καὶ ἰατροί, κοσμοῦσί που τὸ σῶμα καὶ συντάττουσιν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 346:1)
  • οὐ πολὺ γελοιότερον οἰκήσουσιν οὗτοι, οὓσ λέγω τοὺσ τῶν ὑμετέρων παίδων διδασκάλουσ, οἱ παιδοτρίβαι καὶ κιθαρισταὶ καὶ γραμματισταί, προσλαβόντεσ τούσ τε ῥαψῳδοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ὑποκριτάσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 21:4)
  • εἰ δὲ ἧσ οἱ παιδοτρίβαι προεστᾶσι περὶ ταύτησ λέγει, πῶσ γε ἔνι ταύτην εἰσ ταυτὸν ἄγειν ἰατρικῇ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 92:10)

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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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