παῖς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πᾰ́ῑ̈ς ‎(páī̈s), παῦς ‎(paûs)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits, from the Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wids, from *peh₂u-. Cognates include the Latin puer, Sanskrit पुत्र ‎(putrá, “son”), and Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬚𐬭𐬀 ‎(puθra, “son”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA: /pá͜is/ → /pɛs/ → /pes/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /pá͜is/
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /pɛs/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /pɛs/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /pes/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /pes/

Noun

παῖς • ‎(paîs) m, f ‎(genitive παιδός); third declension

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

Declension

Third declension of παῖς, παιδός

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ/ἡ παῖς	τὼ παῖδε	οἱ/αἱ παῖδες
Genitive	τοῦ/τῆς παιδός	τοῖν παίδοιν	τῶν παίδων
Dative	τῷ/τῇ παιδῐ́	τοῖν παίδοιν	τοῖς/ταῖς παισῐ́(ν)
Accusative	τὸν/τὴν παῖδᾰ	τὼ παῖδε	τοὺς/τὰς παῖδᾰς
Vocative	παῖ	παῖδε	παῖδες
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Usage notes

The Doric genitive plural is παιδῶν and the Epic dative plural is παίδεσσι.

Derived terms

• ἀντίπαις ‎(antípais)
• παιδαγωγός ‎(paidagōgós)
• παιδεύω ‎(paideúō)
• παιδοκτόνος ‎(paidoktónos)
• παιδογονία ‎(paidogonía)
• παιδοποιός ‎(paidopoiós)
• παιδοτροφός ‎(paidotrophós)
• παιδότρωτος ‎(paidótrōtos)
• παιδοφιλία ‎(paidophilía)
• παιδότρωτος ‎(paidótrōtos)

Descendants

• Greek: παιδί ‎(paidí)

References

• παῖς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παῖς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παῖς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «παῖς» 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
• παῖς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3816”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.
  • damsel idem, page 194.
  • daughter idem, page 196.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • girl idem, page 359.
  • lad idem, page 473.
  • maid idem, page 507.
  • minor idem, page 531.
  • offspring idem, page 571.
  • progeny idem, page 653.
  • scullion idem, page 743.
  • slave idem, page 782.
  • son idem, page 793.
  • varlet idem, page 944.
  • virgin idem, page 954.