play, sport, sportive strains
play, sport, λωτὸς ὅταν . . παίγματα βρέμῃ wheneʼer the pipe sounds its sportive strains, E. Ba. 161 (lyr.); Λύδια π. λύρας Lyr.Alex.Adesp. 37.15.
II
‘childʼs play’, τὸ τοιοῦτο π. τῶν λόγων Polystr. p.28 W.
The corpus record
παῖγ-μα
paigma · τό
play, sport
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Where it lives
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- παίγματα · paigmata Euripides, Bacchae 152–164
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.