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παίζων (paizon)

παίζων is an Ancient Greek form of παίζω, meaning “play”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 3.3: τῇ δὲ ποιήσει κατʼ ἀρχὰς μὲν εἰς οὐδὲν ἄξιον σπουδῆς, ἀλλὰ παίζων ἔοικε προσχρήσασθαι καὶ παράγων ἑαυτὸν ἐν τῷ σχολάζειν· ὕστερον δὲ καὶ γνώμας ἐνέτεινε φιλοσόφους καὶ τῶν πολ …

All forms of παίζω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.