The corpus record

παιδίσκ-η

paidiske · ἡ

young girl, maiden

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Where it lives

Galatians 5 · 22.88/10k
Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
Genesis 37 · 12.31/10k
Ruth 2 · 10.42/10k
Judith 5 · 5.71/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 3 · 5.71/10k
Deuteronomium 9 · 4.03/10k
Esdras I 3 · 3.65/10k
Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
Exodus 5 · 2.11/10k
Regnorum II 3 · 1.85/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

young girl, maiden

young girl, maiden, X. An. 4.3.11, Anaxil. 22.26, Men. 102, etc.; π. νέα, of a wife, Plu. Cic. 41.

II young female slave, bondmaid, maidservant

young female slave, bondmaid, Lys. 1.12, 13.67, PCair.Zen. 142 (iii B. C.), Ep.Gal. 4.22: generally, maidservant, Ev.Marc. 14.66; τοὺς παῖδας καὶ τὰς π. Ev.Luc. 12.45.

2 prostitute

prostitute, Hdt. 1.93, Is. 6.19, Plu. Per. 24, Cat. Ma. 24, etc.; αἱ δημόσιαι π. Ath. 10.437e.

In the wild

παιδίσκην · paidiskēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3707)
παιδίσκην · paidiskēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3706)
παιδίσκην · paidiskēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3701)
παιδίσκῃ · paidiskēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3707)
παιδίσκην · paidiskēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4276)
παιδίσκης · paidiskēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.5 (DIORISIS sentence 5361)

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Where it came from

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