Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄοικος ἄοικη ἄοικον

Structure: ἀοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. houseless, homeless
  2. a homeless

Examples

  • τέωσ δὲ περιέμενον ἀοίκοσ ἑστώσ, ἄχρι δὴ ὁ Μνήσαρχοσ ἐξεργάσηταί μοι τὸν οἶκον. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 17:3)
  • "ἄδουλοσ οὖν γένωμαι καὶ ἀνέστιοσ καὶ ἀοίκοσ; (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 8 1:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν πένησ ἀεί ἐστι, καὶ πολλοῦ δεῖ ἁπαλόσ τε καὶ καλόσ, οἱο͂ν οἱ πολλοὶ οἰόνται, ἀλλὰ σκληρὸσ καὶ αὐχμηρὸσ καὶ ἀνυπόδητοσ καὶ ἀοίκοσ, χαμαιπετὴσ ἀεὶ ὢν καὶ ἄστρωτοσ, ἐπὶ θύραισ καὶ ἐν ὁδοῖσ ὑπαίθριοσ κοιμώμενοσ, τὴν τῆσ μητρὸσ φύσιν ἔχων, ἀεὶ ἐνδείᾳ σύνοικοσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 327:3)
  • οὐ γάρ εἰμι πρὸσ τοῦτο ἀμελέτητοσ σχεδόν, τοσοῦτον χρόνον πλανηθεὶσ οὐ μόνον ἀοίκοσ καὶ ἀνέστιοσ, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἀκόλουθον ἕνα γοῦν ἐπαγόμενοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:6)
  • "ἴδετέ με, ἀοίκόσ εἰμι, ἄπολισ, ἀκτήμων, ἄδουλοσ· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 47:1)

Synonyms

  1. houseless

  2. a homeless

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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