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παῖς (pais): all forms

παῖς means “child, boy, girl, son, daughter”. Below is its full declension in Ancient Greek.

Positive

Positive, singular
MasculineFeminine
Nominativeπαῖςπαῖς
Genitiveπαιδόςπαιδός
Dativeπαιδίπαιδί
Accusativeπαῖδαπαῖδα
Vocativeπαῖπαῖ
Positive, plural
MasculineFeminine
Nominativeπαῖδεςπαῖδες
Genitiveπαίδωνπαίδων
Dativeπαισί(ν)παισί(ν)
Accusativeπαῖδαςπαῖδας
Vocativeπαῖδεςπαῖδες

Meaning and examples of παῖς

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.