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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παῖς (paîs, “child”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pai̯.dí.on/ → /pɛˈði.on/ → /peˈði.on/
Noun
παιδῐ́ον • (paidíon) n (genitive παιδῐ́ου); second declension
- little child, young child
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.