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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παιδαγωγεῖον (paidagōgeîon, “place where pedagogues waited for their boys; school”).
Pronunciation
Noun
paedagōgīum n (genitive paedagōgīī); second declension
- A training school for pageboys; the pages' hall.
- (in the plural) Pageboys in such an establishment.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
References
- “paedagogium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- paedagogium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- paedagogium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “paedagogium”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- paedagogium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016