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παίγνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παίγνιος παίγνιον

Structure: παιγνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pai/zw

Sense

  1. sportive, droll

Examples

  • ἐχρῶντο γὰρ ἐπιμελῶσ τῷ κοτταβίζειν ὄντοσ τοῦ παιγνίου Σικελικοῦ, καθάπερ καὶ Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήιοσ πεποίηκε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 30 1:2)

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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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