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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

  • μή τι τὸν παιδοτρίβην Διότιμον λέγεισ; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:6)
  • "παιδίον, ἔφη, ὥσπερ πρὸσ Ἱππόμαχον τὸν παιδοτρίβην μνᾶν δοὺσ οἰεί αἰεὶ φοιτήσειν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 47 1:3)
  • ὡμολογοῦμεν μὲν τρεῖσ ὄντεσ, ὅτι ἰατρὸν ἢ παιδοτρίβην. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 56:1)
  • μεταξὺ οὖν τισ προσελθὼν ἀνέστησε τὸν Μενέξενον, φάσκων καλεῖν τὸν παιδοτρίβην· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 82:2)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ κωλύει τὸν παιδοτρίβην ἕνα τῶν γυμναζομένων ἐνίοτ’ εἶναι καὶ αὐτόν, ὥσπερ ὁ κυβερνήτησ εἷσ ἐστιν ἀεὶ τῶν πλωτήρων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 95:2)

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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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