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παῖς

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: παῖς παιδός

Structure: παιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. child, son, daughter
  2. young person, child, boy, girl
  3. slave, servant

Declension

Third 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

  • δυοῖν δὲ παίδοιν δύο νεκρὼ κατόψεται μήτηρ, ἐμοῦ τε τῆσ τε δυστήνου κόρησ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:6)
  • τέθνηκ’ ἀδελφὴ σὴ δυοῖν παίδοιν μέτα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, trochees 1:9)
  • ἃ δ’ ἀμφὶ τοῖν σοῖν δυσμόροιν παίδοιν κακὰ νῦν ἐστι, ταῦτα σημανοῦσ’ ἐλήλυθα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:11)
  • παίδοιν δυοῖν σοι τὴν μὲν ἀρτίωσ ἐγὼ ξυναρπάσασ ἔπεμψα, τὴν δ’ ἄξω τάχα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:14)
  • καὶ αὐτοῦ περὶ τοῖν παίδοιν προεῖπον ἀμφοῖν βεβασιλευκότοιν, Σελεύκου τε καὶ Ἀντιόχου, Σελεύκου μὲν ἔτεσι δώδεκα, ἀπράκτωσ ἅμα καὶ ἀσθενῶσ διὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸσ συμφοράν, Ἀντιόχου δὲ δώδεκα οὐ πλήρεσιν, ἐν οἷσ Ἀρταξίαν τὸν Ἀρμένιον εἷλε, καὶ ἐσ Αἴγυπτον ἐστράτευσεν ἐπὶ ἕκτον Πτολεμαῖον, ὀρφανευόμενον μετ’ ἀδελφοῦ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. child

  2. young person

  3. slave

Related

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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