παιδίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.dí.on/ → /pɛˈði.on/ → /peˈði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.dí.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛˈdi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛˈði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peˈði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈði.on/

Noun

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

1. little child, young child

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ παιδῐ́ον; τοῦ παιδῐ́ου (Attic)

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.

Descendants

• 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)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • babe idem, page 57.
  • boy idem, page 92.
  • child idem, page 129.
  • infant idem, page 437.