παιδίον

Ancient Greek

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

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

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ παιδῐ́ον tò paidíon	τὼ παιδῐ́ω tṑ paidíō	τᾰ̀ παιδῐ́ᾰ tà paidía
Genitive	τοῦ παιδῐ́ου toû paidíou	τοῖν παιδῐ́οιν toîn paidíoin	τῶν παιδῐ́ων tôn paidíōn
Dative	τῷ παιδῐ́ῳ tôi paidíōi	τοῖν παιδῐ́οιν toîn paidíoin	τοῖς παιδῐ́οις toîs paidíois
Accusative	τὸ παιδῐ́ον tò paidíon	τὼ παιδῐ́ω tṑ paidíō	τᾰ̀ παιδῐ́ᾰ tà paidía
Vocative	παιδῐ́ον paidíon	παιδῐ́ω paidíō	παιδῐ́ᾰ paidía
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: педъы́ n (pjeðý)
→⇒ English: lithopedion
→⇒ Italian: litopedio
→? Medieval Latin: pagius m
- → Old French: page (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: paggio (perhaps from Old French)

“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.