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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

  • κωλύοντοσ δὲ τοῦ παιδοτρίβου καὶ νεανίσκων πολλῶν ἐκβοηθούντων, παραχρῆμα ὁ Ἀριστόδημοσ ἀπεχώρησε· (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 3 11:2)
  • ἐν παιδοτρίβου δὲ τίνα πάλην ἐμάνθανεσ; (Aristotle, Episode 2:9)
  • ἐν παιδοτρίβου δὲ καθίζοντασ τὸν μηρὸν ἔδει προβαλέσθαι τοὺσ παῖδασ, ὅπωσ τοῖσ ἔξωθεν μηδὲν δείξειαν ἀπηνέσ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme6)
  • οὐ τοίνυν ἄξιον οὐδὲ τὴν τῶν σωμάτων ἀγωνίαν παρορᾶν, ἀλλὰ πέμποντασ ἐσ παιδοτρίβου τοὺσ παῖδασ ἱκανῶσ ταῦτα διαπονεῖν, ἅμα μὲν τῆσ τῶν σωμάτων εὐρυθμίασ ἕνεκεν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ πρὸσ ῥώμην· (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 11 1:1)
  • ἐν ἁπάσαισ ταῖσ τέχναισ καὶ ταῖσ ἐπιστήμαισ ταῖσ μὴ κατὰ μόριον γινομέναισ, ἀλλὰ περὶ γένοσ ἕν τι τελείαισ οὔσαισ, μιᾶσ ἐστι θεωρῆσαι τὸ περὶ ἕκαστον γένοσ ἁρμόττον, οἱο͂ν ἄσκησισ σώματι ποία τε ποίῳ συμφέρει, καὶ τίσ ἀρίστη τῷ γὰρ κάλλιστα πεφυκότι καὶ κεχορηγημένῳ τὴν ἀρίστην ἀναγκαῖον ἁρμόττειν, καὶ τίσ τοῖσ πλείστοισ μία πᾶσιν καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο τῆσ γυμναστικῆσ ἔργον ἐστίν, ἔτι δ’ ἐάν τισ μὴ τῆσ ἱκνουμένησ ἐπιθυμῇ μήθ’ ἕξεωσ μήτ’ ἐπιστήμησ τῶν περὶ τὴν ἀγωνίαν, μηδὲν ἧττον τοῦ παιδοτρίβου καὶ τοῦ γυμναστικοῦ παρασκευάσαι γε καὶ ταύτην ἐστὶ τὴν δύναμιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 3:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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