παῖδας (paidas)

παῖδας is an Ancient Greek form of παῖς, meaning “child, boy, girl, son, daughter”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 1,566 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1356: Τρηχῖνος. δὴ γάρ ῥα κατʼ αὐτόθι νάσσατο παῖδας,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.10.113: … ι πεδʼ αἰσχύνας οὐδὲ ἀνεξοῦνται τυραννούμενοι. ἀλλʼ αἴ κα Πεισίστρατος 〈αὐτὸσ〉 κατασχέθῃ τὰν πόλιν, οὐ μὰν ἐς παῖδάς γε τήνω ἔλπομαι τὸ κράτος ἵξεσθαι· δυσμάχανον γὰρ ἀνθρώπως ἐλευθεριάξαντας ἐν τεθμοῖς ἀρίστοις δούλως ἦμεν. τ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 4.289: Παῖδας ὑπὲρ ἀδικίας πατέρων μὴ κολάζειν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὴν ἐκείνων αὐτῶν ἀρετὴν οἴκτου μᾶλλον ἀξιοῦν, ὅτι μοχθηρῶν ἐγένον …

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.