The corpus record

παιδί-ον

paidion · τό

little, young child, a child

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Where it lives

Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 16 · 30.46/10k
Enchiridion 3 · 6.05/10k
Matthew 10 · 5.58/10k
Ruth 1 · 5.21/10k
Luke 10 · 5.19/10k
Mark 5 · 4.54/10k
Genesis 12 · 3.99/10k
Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
Discourses 25 · 3.37/10k
Isaias 8 · 3.05/10k
Exodus 6 · 2.53/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

little, young child, a child

little or young child (up to 7 yrs., acc. to Hp. ap. Ph. 1.26), Hdt. 1.110, 2.119, Ar. Pax 50; τὰ νεωστὶ γεγονότα π. Pl. Ly. 212e; ἐκ παιδίου from a child, Ar. Eq. 412, X. Cyr. 1.6.20: prov., τοῦ πατρὸς τὸ π. ‘chip of the old block’, Com.Adesp. 672, title of satire by Varro; so τῆς μητρὸς τὸ π. Str. 10.3.15 (with play on Μήτηρ).

II young slave

young slave, male or female, IG 1(2).329.27, 2(2).1554.67, 1556.22, Ar. Ra. 37, Nu. 132, Av. 1150 (s. v.l.).

III convulsions

τὸ παιδίον, a disease of children, prob. convulsions, dub.l. in Hp. Aër. 3

In the wild

παιδίον · paidion Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
παιδίον · paidion Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
παιδίον · paidion Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1149b (DIORISIS sentence 2378)
παιδίον · paidion Aristotle, Politics 1323a (DIORISIS sentence 2478)
παιδίον · paidion Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
παιδίον · paidion Aristotle, Rhetoric 3

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Where it came from

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