παῖδες (paides)

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

Found 1,136 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.816: λώβην, ὡς τὸ πάροιθεν, ἀεικέα παῖδες ἄμυνον·

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.2.4: … νυν ὁ αἰθερολόγος ἐν τοιῷδε κεῖται τέλει. ἡμέες δὲ οἱ λεσχηνευταὶ αὐτοί τε μεμνώμεθα τοῦ ἀνδρός, οἵ τε ἡμέων παῖδές τε καὶ λεσχηνευταί, ἐπιδεξιοίμεθα δʼ ἔτι τοῖς ἐκείνου λόγοις. ἀρχὴ μέντοι παντὸς τοῦ λόγου Θαλῇ ἀνακείσθω. Κα …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.233: Παῖδες δὲ ἦσαν αὐτῷ γνήσιοι μὲν ἑβδομήκοντα, πολλὰς γὰρ ἔγημε γυναῖκας, νόθος δʼ εἷς ἐκ παλλακῆς Δρούμας Ἀβιμέλεχος …

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.