Ancient Greek

Noun

παιδείᾱ • ‎(paideíā) f ‎(genitive παιδείᾱς); first declension

1. upbringing
2. training, education
3. youth, childhood

Inflection

Related terms

• παίδῐον ‎(paídion)

Descendants

References

• παιδεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παιδεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «παιδεία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G3809”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boyhood idem, page 92.
  • breeding idem, page 97.
  • bringing up idem, page 100.
  • childhood idem, page 130.
  • childishness idem, page 130.
  • civilisation idem, page 134.
  • cultivation idem, page 189.
  • culture idem, page 189.
  • education idem, page 262.
  • enlightenment idem, page 275.
  • humanity idem, page 409.
  • improvement idem, page 424.
  • infancy idem, page 437.
  • learning idem, page 483.
  • minority idem, page 531.
  • nonage idem, page 559.
  • polish idem, page 624.
  • puerility idem, page 656.
  • rearing idem, page 676.
  • training idem, page 887.

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ ‎(paideíā).

Noun

παιδεία • ‎(paideía) f ‎(uncountable)

1. education (the teaching and training of the child, compare with εκπαίδευση)

   Υπουργείο Παιδείας (Ministry of Education)

   μουσική παιδεία (musical education)

2. learning, culture

Declension

Synonyms

• (culture): κουλτούρα f ‎(koultoúra)

• and see: εκπαίδευση f ‎(ekpaídefsi)

Related terms

• see: παιδαγωγός m, f ‎(paidagogós, “pedagogue, educationist”)