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παίγνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παίγνιος παίγνιον

Structure: παιγνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pai/zw

Sense

sportive, droll

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	παίγνιος	παίγνιον
	Genitive	παιγνίου	παιγνίου
	Dative	παιγνίῳ	παιγνίῳ
	Accusative	παίγνιον	παίγνιον
	Vocative	παίγνιε	παίγνιον
Dual	N/A/V	παιγνίω	παιγνίω
Dual	G/D	παιγνίοιν	παιγνίοιν
Plural	Nominative	παίγνιοι	παίγνια
	Genitive	παιγνίων	παιγνίων
	Dative	παιγνίοις	παιγνίοις
	Accusative	παιγνίους	παίγνια
	Vocative	παίγνιοι	παίγνια

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	παίγνιος παιγνίου	παιγνιότερος παιγνιοτέρου	παιγνιότατος παιγνιοτάτου
Adverb	παιγνίως	παιγνιότερον	παιγνιότατα

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)

παίγνιον (a plaything)
ὄρτυξ (quail)
μεσόμφαλος (in mid-navel)
στέφος (a crown)
στέφω (I put around)
μελίχρως ()
μελίχρους ()
μελιχρός (honey-sweet)
ἀλάβαστος (a box or casket of alabaster)
Λυαῖος (Deliverer)
φιλύρα (the lime or linden tree)
τεῦτλον (beet)
τορευτός (worked in relief)
Τίτυρος (satyr)
μελίλωτον (melilot)
μεμελημένως (carefully)
κρατήρ (mixing bowl for wine)
ἑλίχρυσος (a creeping plant with yellow flower or fruit)
ἰάλεμος (a wail)
Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (an hermaphrodite)
μόναυλος (a player on the single flute)
Συρίζω (to speak like a Syrian)
βάρβιτος (barbitos)
βάρβιτον (inflection of βάρβιτος ‎)
ἀλφηστής (working for one's daily bread)
ὑπότριμμα (A pungent dish made of various items grated and mixed together)
κατάχυσμα (that which is poured over)
παρέρπω (to creep secretly up to)
παρῳδός (singing indirectly)
Ἕμπουσα (Empusa)

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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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