παιδονόμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

παῖς (paîs, “child”) +‎ νόμος (nómos, “law”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.do.nó.mos/ → /pɛ.ðoˈno.mos/ → /pe.ðoˈno.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.do.nó.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛ.doˈno.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛ.ðoˈno.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.ðoˈno.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.ðoˈno.mos/

Noun

παιδονόμος • (paidonómos) m (genitive παιδονόμου); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural, of a board of magistrates) supervisor of education
   • 400 BCE – 330 BCE, Ephorus, Universal History 149.J.
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 2.2
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1300a4
     • Aristotle, Politics 1336a32

Declension

Second declension of ὁ παιδονόμος; τοῦ παιδονόμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ παιδονόμος ho paidonómos	τὼ παιδονόμω tṑ paidonómō	οἱ παιδονόμοι hoi paidonómoi
Genitive	τοῦ παιδονόμου toû paidonómou	τοῖν παιδονόμοιν toîn paidonómoin	τῶν παιδονόμων tôn paidonómōn
Dative	τῷ παιδονόμῳ tôi paidonómōi	τοῖν παιδονόμοιν toîn paidonómoin	τοῖς παιδονόμοις toîs paidonómois
Accusative	τὸν παιδονόμον tòn paidonómon	τὼ παιδονόμω tṑ paidonómō	τοὺς παιδονόμους toùs paidonómous
Vocative	παιδονόμε paidonóme	παιδονόμω paidonómō	παιδονόμοι paidonómoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παιδονομέω (paidonoméō)
• παιδονομῐ́ᾱ (paidonomíā)
• παιδονομῐκός (paidonomikós)

 

Descendants

• Latin: paedonomus
  • English: paedonom

Further reading

• “παιδονόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παιδονόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παιδονόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette