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παίγνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παίγνιον παίγνιου

Structure: παιγνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pai/zw

Sense

  1. a plaything, toy
  2. playmates
  3. a game, a sportive poem, merry chirp

Declension

Second 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

  • μένοισ ἀνιᾶσθαι μὴ χαίρειν δὲ τοῖσ σῳζομένοισ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τὰ μικρὰ παιδάρια, ἀπὸ πολλῶν παιγνίων ἂν ἕν τισ ἀφέληταί τι, καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ πάντα ἀπορρίψαντα κλαίει καὶ βοᾷ, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἡμᾶσ περὶ ἓν ὀχληθέντασ ὑπὸ τῆσ τύχησ, καὶ τἄλλα πάντα ποιεῖν ἀνόνητα ἑαυτοῖσ ὀδυρομένουσ καὶ δυσφοροῦντασ. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 8 4:3)
  • ἄλκιμοσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Σικελικοῖσ ἐν Μεσσήνῃ φησὶ τῇ κατὰ τὴν νῆσον Βότρυν γενέσθαι εὑρετὴν τῶν παραπλησίων παιγνίων τοῖσ προσαγορευομένοισ Σάλπησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 118 3:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Σάρμεντοσ ἦν τῶν Καίσαροσ παιγνίων παιδάριον, ἃ δηλίκια Ῥωμαῖοι καλοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 59 4:1)
  • ἵνα δὲ μή τισ ὑπολάβῃ με ταῦτα ἄλλωσ λέγειν, ἐκ τῶν Παιγνίων Κράτητοσ ὀλίγα σοι παραγράψω· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 1)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἐμμανῆ γενομένην καὶ τῶν τῆσ θυγατρὸσ παιγνίων τὰ δυνάμενα ψόφον ἐπιτελεῖν ἁρπάσασαν πλανᾶσθαι κατὰ τὴν χώραν, λελυμένην μὲν τὰσ τρίχασ, τῷ δὲ διὰ τῶν τυμπάνων καὶ κυμβάλων ψόφῳ ἐνθεάζουσαν, ὥστε καταπλήττεσθαι πλήττεσθαι τοὺσ ὁρῶντασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 57 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a plaything

  2. playmates

Related

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

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