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παιδοτροφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδοτροφία

Structure: παιδοτροφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from paidotro/fos

Sense

  1. the rearing of children

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

  • Ἡμεῖσ τοίνυν οὔτε χώραν οἰκοῦμεν παράλιον οὔτ’ ἐμπορίαισ χαίρομεν οὐδὲ ταῖσ πρὸσ ἄλλουσ διὰ τούτων ἐπιμιξίαισ, ἀλλ’ εἰσὶ μὲν ἡμῶν αἱ πόλεισ μακρὰν ἀπὸ θαλάσσησ ἀνῳκισμέναι, χώραν δὲ ἀγαθὴν νεμόμενοι ταύτην ἐκπονοῦμεν μάλιστα δὴ πάντων περὶ παιδοτροφίαν φιλοκαλοῦντεσ καὶ τὸ φυλάττειν τοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ τὴν κατὰ τούτουσ παραδεδομένην εὐσέβειαν ἔργον ἀναγκαιότατον παντὸσ τοῦ βίου πεποιημένοι. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 72:1)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ ἐννόησον, εἰ βούλει, καὶ τὴν Φρυγίαν τὴν Πριάμου δούλην, ἣ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ ἐξέθρεψεν ὡσ αὑτῆσ υἱέα, λαβοῦσα παρὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ βουκόλου ὄντοσ, καὶ τὴν παιδοτροφίαν οὐ χαλεπῶσ ἔφερεν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:4)
  • τοιούτουσ γάρ τινασ δαίμονασ ἢ προπόλουσ θεῶν τοὺσ Κουρῆτάσ φασιν οἱ παραδόντεσ τὰ Κρητικὰ καὶ τὰ Φρύγια, ἱερουργίαισ τισὶν ἐμπεπλεγμένα ταῖσ μὲν μυστικαῖσ ταῖσ δ’ ἄλλαισ περί τε τὴν τοῦ Διὸσ παιδοτροφίαν τὴν ἐν Κρήτῃ καὶ τοὺσ τῆσ μητρὸσ τῶν θεῶν ὀργιασμοὺσ ἐν τῇ Φρυγίᾳ καὶ τοῖσ περὶ τὴν Ἴδην τὴν Τρωικὴν τόποισ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 12:2)

Synonyms

  1. the rearing of children

Related

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

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