παῖ (pai)

παῖ is an Ancient Greek form of παῖς, meaning “child, boy, girl, son, daughter”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 521 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.71: … ὶ Ἀρχίλοχον καὶ Εὐριπίδην σκεπτικῶς ἔχειν, ἐν οἷς Ἀρχίλοχος μέν φησι· τοῖος ἀνθρώποισι θυμός, Γλαῦκε Λεπτίνεω πάϊ, γίγνεται θνητοῖς ὁκοίην Ζεὺς ἐπʼ ἡμέρην ἄγει. Εὐριπίδης δέ· (ὡ̓͂ Ζεῦ,) τί δῆτα τοὺς ταλαιπώρους βροτοὺς φρον …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 23.19: Ἄγριε παῖ καὶ στυγνέ, κακᾶς ἀνάθρεμμα λεαίνας,

Plutarch, De Genio Socratis 11·2: πενίᾳ γὰρ ἐμμεῖναι παρὰ πάντα τὸν βίον ἑκουσίως, σὺν παὶ χάριτι τῶν διδόντων ἔχειν δυνάμενον, καὶ φιλοσοφίας μὴ ἐκστῆναι πρὸς τοσαῦτα κωλύματα καὶ τέλος εἰς σωτηρίαν …

All forms of παῖς (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.