LogeionPerseus analysis of παῖδά:
παῖς (child): masc/fem acc sg
LSJ entry
παῖς
παῖς,
also παῦς (q. v.), παιδός, ὁ, ἡ,
gen. pl. παίδων,
Dor. παιδῶν Greg.Cor.p.317 S.;
dat. pl. παισί,
Ep. παίδεσσι Od. 3.381,
etc.; in early Ep. freq. disyll. in nom. πάϊς,
e. g. when forming part of two different feet, Il. 2.609,
5.704,
etc.; prob. also in the fifth foot, 9.57,
11.389;
and before bucolic diaeresis, 2.205,
al.; also in Lyr., Sapph. 38, 85;
and in Boeot.,
IG 7.690,
al. (
Tanagra),
cf. πῆς; πάϊ [ᾰῑ]
Od. 24.192 (
παιδ-
is never disyll. in oblique cases in Hom.);
acc. πάϊν A.R. 4.697,
AP 3.8 (Inscr. Cyzic.), 9.125;
gen. παϊδός Epigr. ap. Luc. Symp. 41;
dat. παϊδί prob. in Anacr. 17:
I. in relation to Descent, child,
whether son,
Il. 2.205,
609,
al. (with special reference to the father, opp. τέκνον,
q.v.): pl., Th. 1.4,
etc.; or daughter,
Il. 1.20,
443,
3.175;
παῖδες ἄρρενες καὶ θήλειαι Pl. Lg. 788a;
παῖς,
opp. κόρα,
Berl.Sitzb. 1927.7 (
Locr.,
v. B.C.); of an adopted son,
ἀλλά σε παῖδα ποιεύμην Il. 9.494;
παίδων παῖδες, τοί κεν μετόπισθε γένωνται 20.308,
cf. Pi. N. 7.100,
Inscr.Cypr. 135.11
H., etc.; Ἀγήνορος παῖδες ἐκ παίδων E. Ph. 281;
freq. in orators of legal issue,
Isoc. 19.9,
Is. 7.31,
etc.; of animals, A. Ag. 50 (anap.). 3. periphr., οἱ Λυδῶν παῖδες sons of the Lydians, i. e. the Lydians, Hdt. 1.27,
cf. 5.49;
π. Ἑλλήνων A. Pers. 402;
οἱ [Ἀσκληπιοῦ] π.,
i. e. physicians, Pl. R. 407e;
οἱ ζωγράφων π. painters, Id. Lg. 769b;
παῖδες ῥητόρων orators, Luc. Anach. 19;
π. ἰατρῶν, π. πλαστῶν καὶ γραφέων,
Id. Dips. 5,
Im. 9; cf. υἱός 2. II. in relation to Age, child, boy or girl,
νέος π. Od. 4.665;
παῖδες νεαροί Il. 2.289;
σμίκρα π. Sapph. 34:
with another Subst.,
π. συφορβός boy-swineherd, Il. 21.282;
παῖδα κόρην γαμεῖν Ar. Lys. 595;
ἐν παισὶ νέοισι π. Pi. N. 3.72;
π. ἔτʼ ὤν A. Ch. 755,
cf. Il. 11.710;
ἔτι π. Pl. Prt. 310e;
παιδὸς μηδὲν βελτίων ib.342e:
distd. from παιδίον, μειράκιον,
Hp. Hebd. 5,
cf. X. Smp. 4.17,
Cyr. 8.7.6,
1.2.4;
ἐκ παιδός from a child,
Pl. R. 374c;
ἐκ παιδὸς εἰς γῆρας Aeschin. 1.180;
ἐκ τῶν παίδων εὐθύς Pl. Lg. 694d,
cf. R. 386a;
ἀκούων τῶν παίδων εὐθύς Id. Lg. 642b;
εὐθὺς ἐκ παίδων ἐξελθών D. 21.154;
ἡλικίαν ἔχειν τὴν ἄρτι ἐκ π. to be just out of oneʼs childhood,
X. HG 5.4.25;
ἐκ μικρῶν π. Arist. Pol. 1336a14; [
Ἡρακλῆς] ἐν παισὶν ὄφεις ἀπέκτεινεν D.C. 56.36;
ἐν παισὶ (v.l. παιδὶ) ποιμαίνων Hdn. 6.8.1;
χορηγεῖν παισί (cf. χορηγέω II): prov., τοῦτο κἂν π. γνοίη Pl. Euthd. 279d;
δῆλον τοῦτό γε ἤδη καὶ παιδί Id. Smp. 204b;
παῖδας [τοὺς πρὸ αὐτοῦ] ἀπέφηνε Luc. Peregr. 11,
cf. Alex. 4;
ἔνι τις καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν π.,
of the superstitious fears of a child, Pl. Phd. 77e,
cf. Porph. Abst. 1.41.
III. in relation to Condition, slave, servant, man or maid (of all ages), παῖ, παῖ A. Ch. 653,
cf. Ar. Ach. 395,
Epicr. 5.2,
etc.; παῖ, παιδίον Ar. Nu. 132:
pl., of the crew of a ship, D. 33.8.
(From *παϝις,
cf. παῦρος,
Lat. puer.)