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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

  • οὐδεὶσ ἄρα τῶν ἰατρῶν ἑαυτὸν γιγνώσκει, καθ’ ὅσον ἰατρόσ, οὐδὲ τῶν παιδοτριβῶν, καθ’ ὅσον παιδοτρίβησ. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 170:4)
  • καίτοι ἄνευ μὲν αὐλητῶν καὶ κιθαριστῶν καὶ σκυτοτόμων καὶ παιδοτριβῶν καὶ ῥητόρων καὶ ἰατρῶν οὐκ ἀδύνατον ἀνθρώποισ βιοῦν πάνυ καλῶσ καὶ νομίμωσ, οἶμαι δ̓ ἐγὼ καὶ δίχα γεωργῶν καὶ οἰκοδόμων· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 8:3)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν κατάγνωθι τῶν γιγνομένων, εἶτα καταγνοὺσ μὴ ἀπογνῷσ σεαυτοῦ μηδὲ πάθῃσ τὸ τῶν ἀγεννῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἳ ἅπαξ ἐνδόντεσ εἰσάπαν ἐπέδωκαν ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ ὡσ ὑπὸ ῥεύματοσ παρεσύρησαν, ἀλλὰ μάθε τὸ τῶν παιδοτριβῶν. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 14:1)
  • πᾶσι γὰρ ὑπάρχει ἰδεῖν τοῦθ’ ὅτι χωρὶσ μὲν παιδοτριβῶν πολλὰ γένη τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἄγεται καὶ σώζεται, ἰατρικὴν δ’ εἶναι καὶ μὴ πᾶσι τὸ πᾶν ὡσ εἰπεῖν διαφέρει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 92:11)

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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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