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ἄποικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄποικος ἄποικη ἄποικον

Structure: ἀποικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. away from home, away from
  2. a settler, colonist
  3. a colony

Examples

  • "διὸ καὶ περὶ χώρασ ἀποίκου καὶ ξένησ θαλάττησ ἐθῶν τε βαρβαρικῶν καὶ νόμων οἱ πεπλανημένοι καὶ πεπλευκότεσ ἣδιον ἐρωτῶνται, καὶ προθύμωσ διηγοῦνται καὶ διαγράφουσι κόλπουσ καὶ τόπουσ, οἰόμενοι καὶ χάριν τινὰ τῶν πόνων ταύτην καὶ παραμυθίαν κομίζεσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 6:9)
  • εἰ δὲ δεῖ καὶ τῆσ Ὁμήρου μνησθῆναι, μετέχει καὶ ταύτησ τῆσ φιλοτιμίασ ἡ πόλισ, οὐ μόνον διὰ τῆσ ἀποίκου πόλεωσ, ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ ἡ φωνὴ σαφῶσ ἐνθένδε. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 91:10)
  • ἔστι γὰρ οὐ νεωστὶ ἡμῖν ἡ πόλισ εὐτυχὴσ, ἀλλ’ ἐκ προγόνων, καὶ καθέστηκεν αὐτὴ πρὸσ αὑτὴν ἐν ἀποίκου σχήματι καὶ μητροπόλεωσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. away from home

  2. a settler

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

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