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παιγνία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιγνία

Structure: παιγνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pai/zw

Sense

  1. play, sport, a game

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παιγνία παιγνίᾱ παιγνίαι
Genitive παιγνίᾱς παιγνίαιν παιγνιῶν
Dative παιγνίᾱͅ παιγνίαιν παιγνίαις
Accusative παιγνίᾱν παιγνίᾱ παιγνίᾱς
Vocative παιγνίᾱ παιγνίᾱ παιγνίαι

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

  • καὶ ῥητορικῶσ, τὸν δὲ φιλότιμον καὶ φιλόκαλον καὶ μὴ παιγνίασ ἀλλὰ παιδείασ ἕνεκα ποιημάτων ἁπτόμενον ἀργῶσ καὶ ἀμελῶσ ἀκούειν τῶν πρὸσ ἀνδρείαν ἢ σωφροσύνην ἢ δικαιοσύνην ἀναπεφωνημένων, οἱᾶ καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ Τυδείδη, τί παθόντε λελάσμεθα θούριδοσ ἀλκῆσ; (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 11 5:1)
  • δοθεῖσαι δ’ ὑπὸ Ἀρήτησ Μηδείᾳ δώδεκα θεράπαιναι τοὺσ ἀριστέασ ἔσκωπτον μετὰ παιγνίασ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 26:5)
  • φασὶ δὲ αὐτοὶ Λυδοὶ καὶ τὰσ παιγνίασ τὰσ νῦν σφίσι τε καὶ Ἕλλησι κατεστεώσασ ἑωυτῶν ἐξεύρημα γενέσθαι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 94 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. play

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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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