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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

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

  • κἂν εἴ τισ περὶ ἀγωνίασ τοῦ ὑέοσ σοι βουλὴ εἰή τί χρὴ ἀσκεῖν, ἆρα τοῖσ πλείοσιν ἂν ἡμῶν πείθοιο, ἢ ’κείνῳ ὅστισ τυγχάνει ὑπὸ παιδοτρίβῃ ἀγαθῷ πεπαιδευμένοσ καὶ ἠσκηκώσ; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 38:6)
  • οὐδ’ ἂν αὖ περὶ ἀναρμόστου τε καὶ εὐαρμόστου ἐσομένου παιδοτρίβησ ἂν βέλτιον δοξάσειεν μουσικοῦ, ὃ καὶ ἔπειτα αὐτῷ τῷ παιδοτρίβῃ δόξει εὐάρμοστον εἶναι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 222:1)
  • ἔπειτ’ ἐν τῇ παλαίστρᾳ οὐκ ἐπέτρεπε τῷ παιδοτρίβῃ ἀθλητικῶσ ἄγειν, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸ μόνον ἐρυθήματοσ χάριν καὶ εὐεξίασ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 11:6)

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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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