The corpus record

παιδᾰρ-ιώδης

paidariodes

childish, puerile

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Where it lives

Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

childish, puerile, the most puerile style

childish, puerile, Pl. Phlb. 14d, Arist. Pol. 1270b28, Metaph. 995a5, Nicoch. 21, Plb. 12.4B.1 (Sup.); τὸ -έστατον the most puerile style, Longin. 4.1. Adv. -δῶς Plb. 27.2.10, Phld. Mus. p.91 K., Gal. 14.224.

In the wild

παιδαριώδη · paidariōdē Aristotle, Metaphysics book 2 (DIORISIS sentence 419)
ʼπαιδαριώδης · ʼpaidariōdēs Aristotle, Politics 1270b (DIORISIS sentence 708)
παιδαριώδης · paidariōdēs Aristotle, Politics 1271a (DIORISIS sentence 720)
παιδαριῶδες · paidariōdes Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8234)
παιδαριῶδες · paidariōdes Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.28.1 (DIORISIS sentence 427)
παιδαριώδη · paidariōdē Plato, Philebus 14

Where it came from

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