Παίω
I beat
Translated by David Whitehead28 Feb 2004Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
The [verb that means] I strike.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παίω· τὸ τύπτω.
Betacode
*pai/w: to\ tu/ptw.
Notes
- Likewise or similarly in other lexica and grammars; and see already pi 873.
Linked from4 entries
- π873Παίειbeats[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] strikes. Aristophanes [writes]: "beat, beat the sinful and wicked and horse-array-spooking and tax-collecting and wind-pipe and Charybdis."
- π874Παίεινto beatThus they call doing anything whatsoever intensely. Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "and the young man quickly beats [the old man] with terse words."
- π893Παῖσαιto play, to dance; to strike[Meaning] to play like a child. To beat.
- π894Παισθείςbeaten[Meaning one who was] struck.
Neighbouring entries
Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Sep 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead