παιδ-ικός (paidikos)

Where it lives

Lysis 4 · 5.76/10k
Hipparchus 1 · 4.44/10k
Phaedrus 7 · 4.21/10k
Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
Symposium 5 · 2.87/10k
Symposium 2 · 2.1/10k
Euthydemus 2 · 1.61/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
Cratylus 2 · 1.12/10k
Gorgias 2 · 0.76/10k
Parmenides 1 · 0.66/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

of a child, for, like a child, boy, girl, boyish, of boys, for a child, elementary, in the boys’ games

of a child, θρίξ IG 12(5).173 iii 4 (Paros); χιτών PTeb. 127 (ii B. C.); ἡλικία Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1055.10; for or like a child, whether boy or girl, but more commonly the former, boyish, ἔρως Pl. R. 608a, cf. S. Fr. 841; πέος Ar. Lys. 415; π. χορός the chorus of boys, Lys. 21.4; π. δῶρον a present for a child, Arist. EN 1123a15; π. ἁμαρτίαι, φιλίαι, ib. 1119a34, 1165b26; π. μαθήματα the elementary sciences, chiefly geometry, Plb. 9.26a. 4; π. μέτρησις Str. 2.4.2; παλαίστρα SIG 577.84 (Milet., ii

2 playful, sportive

playful, sportive, λόγοι X. Ages. 8.2; opp. σπουδαῖος, Pl. Cra. 406c. Adv. -κῶς, opp. σπουδαίως, ibid., Id. Ly. 211a, etc.

3 puerile

puerile, φθόνος Id. Phlb. 49a; ἠλίθιον καὶ λίαν π. Arist. EN 1176b33.

II of, for a beloved youth, love-songs, love

of or for a beloved youth, ὕμνοι π. love-songs, B. Fr. 3.12; π. λόγος a love-tale, X. Cyr. 1.4.27; παιδικά (sc. μέλη), such as the twenty-ninth Idyll of Theoc.

III boys’ gymnasium

as Subst. παιδικόν, τό, boys’ gymnasium, AJA 18.329 (i B. C.): but mostly,

2 darling, favourite, minion, boy, darling pupil, girl

darling, favourite, minion, μηδὲ παλλακὴν μηδὲ π. ἔχειν PTeb. 104.20(i B. C.):—elsewh. in pl. (of a single person) παιδικά, ῶν, τά, mostly of a boy, S. Fr. 153, Pl. Prt. 315e, etc.; [Ζήνων] π. τοῦ Παρμενίδου his darling pupil, Id. Prm. 127b; π. ὢν καὶ πιστότατος Th. 1.132, cf. Pl. Phdr. 239a: seldom as a real pl., ἐρασταὶ καὶ π. Id. Smp. 178e, Onos. 24; rarely of a girl, Cratin. 258, Eup. 327: generally, Philostr. Her. 2.7.

b darling pursuit

metaph., darling pursuit, φιλοσοφία τὰ ἐμὰ π. Pl. Grg. 482a, cf. (Max.Tyr. 35.1, Lib. Or. 59.133.

In the wild

παιδικὰς · paidikas Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1119a (DIORISIS sentence 1059)
παιδικαῖς · paidikais Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1165b (DIORISIS sentence 3167)
παιδικὰ · paidika Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1195)
παιδικὰ · paidika Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3649)
παιδικὰ · paidika Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.8 (DIORISIS sentence 7640)
παιδικήν · paidikēn Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.21.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1486)

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