παιδεία

See also: παιδείᾳ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From παιδεύω (paideúō, “rear a child”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.děː.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛˈdi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛˈði.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peˈði.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈði.a/

Noun

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

Inflection

First declension of ἡ παιδείᾱ; τῆς παιδείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ παιδείᾱ hē paideíā	τὼ παιδείᾱ tṑ paideíā	αἱ παιδεῖαι hai paideîai
Genitive	τῆς παιδείᾱς tês paideíās	τοῖν παιδείαιν toîn paideíain	τῶν παιδειῶν tôn paideiôn
Dative	τῇ παιδείᾳ têi paideíāi	τοῖν παιδείαιν toîn paideíain	ταῖς παιδείαις taîs paideíais
Accusative	τὴν παιδείᾱν tḕn paideíān	τὼ παιδείᾱ tṑ paideíā	τᾱ̀ς παιδείᾱς tā̀s paideíās
Vocative	παιδείᾱ paideíā	παιδείᾱ paideíā	παιδεῖαι paideîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

English: paideia
Greek: παιδεία (paideía)
Latin: paedīa
Romanian: paideia

Further reading

“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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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 562.
- 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)

education (the teaching and training of the child, compare with εκπαίδευση)
Υπουργείο Παιδείας (Ministry of Education)

μουσική παιδεία (musical education)
learning, culture

Declension

παιδεία

case \ number	singular
nominative	παιδεία •
genitive	παιδείας •
accusative	παιδεία •
vocative	παιδεία •

Synonyms

(culture): κουλτούρα f (koultoúra)
and see: εκπαίδευση f (ekpaídefsi)

Related terms

αδιαπαιδαγώγητος (adiapaidagógitos, “uneducated”)
αντιπαιδαγωγικός (antipaidagogikós, “unpedagogical”, adjective)
απαιδαγωγησία f (apaidagogisía, “illiteracy”)
απαιδαγώγητος (apaidagógitos, “uneducated, ill-bred”, adjective)
απαιδευσία f (apaidefsía, “illiteracy”)
απαίδευτος (apaídeftos, “ignorant, uneducated”, adjective)
εκπαίδευση f (ekpaídefsi, “education, training”)
παιδαγώγηση f (paidagógisi, “erudition, learning”)
παιδαγωγία f (paidagogía, “pedagogy”)
παιδαγωγική f (paidagogikí, “pedagogy”)
παιδαγωγικός (paidagogikós, “pedagogic, pedagogical, educational”, adjective)
παιδαγωγός m or f (paidagogós, “pedagogue, educationist”)
παιδαγωγώ (paidagogó, “to teach”)
τηλεκπαίδευση f (tilekpaídefsi, “teletraining”)
τηλεκπαιδευτικός (tilekpaideftikós, “related to teletraining”)

Further reading

παιδεία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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