Παῖσαι
to play, to dance; to strike
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Nov 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παῖσαι· παῖξαι. τύψαι.
Betacode
*pai=sai: pai=cai. tu/yai.
Notes (2)
- Both glosses have parallels in other lexica; references at Photius pi39 Theodoridis.
cf. pi 873, pi 880, pi 892, pi 894. - 1The earlier aorist stem of
pai/zw "play, dance" waspaisa- frompaid-sa- . Cf. scholion on Aristophanes, Frogs 388, where the headword occurs (web address 1). ↩ - 2In later Attic,
paisa- was the aorist stem ofpai/w "strike," and the aorist stem ofpai/zw waspaica- (formed by analogy with-zw -verbs from roots with gamma). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from5 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."
- π892Παίσατεdance[Meaning] what we [sc. would convey by] pai/cate. Homer [writes]: "dance, so that the guest [sc. can tell of it when he reaches home]."
- π894Παισθείςbeaten[Meaning one who was] struck.
- π2639Προσέπαισεmade fun of, made jest of[prose/paise means the same as] prose/paice. Plato uses the 's' instead of the 'x'.
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