παιδίον

Ancient Greek

From παῖς (paîs, “child”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

παιδῐ́ον • (paidĭ́on) n (genitive παιδῐ́ου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ παιδῐ́ον tò paidĭ́on	τὼ παιδῐ́ω tṑ paidĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ παιδῐ́ᾰ tằ paidĭ́ă
Genitive	τοῦ παιδῐ́ου toû paidĭ́ou	τοῖν παιδῐ́οιν toîn paidĭ́oin	τῶν παιδῐ́ων tôn paidĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ παιδῐ́ῳ tōî paidĭ́ōi	τοῖν παιδῐ́οιν toîn paidĭ́oin	τοῖς παιδῐ́οις toîs paidĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ παιδῐ́ον tò paidĭ́on	τὼ παιδῐ́ω tṑ paidĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ παιδῐ́ᾰ tằ paidĭ́ă
Vocative	παιδῐ́ον paidĭ́on	παιδῐ́ω paidĭ́ō	παιδῐ́ᾰ paidĭ́ă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Byzantine Greek: παιδίν n (paidín)
- Greek: παιδί n (paidí)
- Italiot Greek: pedì n
- Mariupol Greek: пидъы́ n (piðý)
→⇒ English: lithopedion
→⇒ Italian: litopedio
→? Late Latin: pagius m (see there for further descendants)

“παιδίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“παιδίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
παιδίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G3813 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
παιδίον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- babe idem, page 57.
- boy idem, page 92.
- child idem, page 129.
- infant idem, page 437.