παιδεία
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See also: παιδείᾳ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παιδεύω (paideúō, “rear a child”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pai̯.děː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pɛˈdi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pɛˈði.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /peˈði.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /peˈði.a/
Noun
παιδείᾱ • (paideíā) f (genitive παιδείᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ παιδείᾱ hē paideíā |
τὼ παιδείᾱ tṑ paideíā |
αἱ παιδεῖαι hai paideîai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς παιδείᾱς tês paideíās |
τοῖν παιδείαιν toîn paideíain |
τῶν παιδειῶν tôn paideiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ παιδείᾳ têi paideíāi |
τοῖν παιδείαιν toîn paideíain |
ταῖς παιδείαις taîs paideíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν παιδείᾱν tḕn paideíān |
τὼ παιδείᾱ tṑ paideíā |
τᾱ̀ς παιδείᾱς tā̀s paideíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | παιδείᾱ paideíā |
παιδείᾱ paideíā |
παιδεῖαι paideîai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)
Descendants
Further reading
- “παιδεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παιδεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παιδεία 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
- G3809 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- boyhood idem, page 92.
- breeding idem, page 97.
- bringing up idem, page 100.
- childhood idem, page 130.
- childishness idem, page 130.
- civilisation idem, page 134.
- cultivation idem, page 189.
- culture idem, page 189.
- education idem, page 262.
- enlightenment idem, page 275.
- humanity idem, page 409.
- improvement idem, page 424.
- infancy idem, page 437.
- learning idem, page 483.
- minority idem, page 531.
- nonage idem, page 562.
- polish idem, page 624.
- puerility idem, page 656.
- rearing idem, page 676.
- training idem, page 887.
Greek
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā).
Noun
παιδεία • (paideía) f (uncountable)
- education (the teaching and training of the child, compare with εκπαίδευση)
- Υπουργείο Παιδείας (Ministry of Education)
- μουσική παιδεία (musical education)
- learning, culture
Declension
παιδεία
| case \ number | singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | παιδεία • |
| genitive | παιδείας • |
| accusative | παιδεία • |
| vocative | παιδεία • |
Synonyms
- (culture): κουλτούρα f (koultoúra)
- and see: εκπαίδευση f (ekpaídefsi)
Related terms
- αδιαπαιδαγώγητος (adiapaidagógitos, “uneducated”)
- αντιπαιδαγωγικός (antipaidagogikós, “unpedagogical”, adjective)
- απαιδαγωγησία f (apaidagogisía, “illiteracy”)
- απαιδαγώγητος (apaidagógitos, “uneducated, ill-bred”, adjective)
- απαιδευσία f (apaidefsía, “illiteracy”)
- απαίδευτος (apaídeftos, “ignorant, uneducated”, adjective)
- εκπαίδευση f (ekpaídefsi, “education, training”)
- παιδαγώγηση f (paidagógisi, “erudition, learning”)
- παιδαγωγία f (paidagogía, “pedagogy”)
- παιδαγωγική f (paidagogikí, “pedagogy”)
- παιδαγωγικός (paidagogikós, “pedagogic, pedagogical, educational”, adjective)
- παιδαγωγός m or f (paidagogós, “pedagogue, educationist”)
- παιδαγωγώ (paidagogó, “to teach”)
- τηλεκπαίδευση f (tilekpaídefsi, “teletraining”)
- τηλεκπαιδευτικός (tilekpaideftikós, “related to teletraining”)
Further reading
παιδεία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
