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παιδιαῖς (paidiais)

παιδιαῖς is an Ancient Greek form of παιδιή, meaning “play, game, amusement”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcus Cato 24.8: ἀλλʼ, ὥσπερ Διονύσιόν τις ἔπεισε κάλλιστον ἐντάφιον ἡγεῖσθαι τὴν τυραννίδα, κάλλιστον αὐτὸς ἐγγήραμα τὴν πολιτείαν ποιησάμενος ἀναπαύσεσιν ἐχρῆτο καὶ παιδιαῖς, ὁπότε σχολάζοι, τῷ συντάττεσθαι βιβλία καὶ τῷ γεωργεῖν.

All forms of παιδιή (declension 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.