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ἐνοίκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνοίκιος ἐνοίκιον

Structure: ἐνοικι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: oi)=kos

Sense

  1. in the house, keeping at home, a dunghill
  2. house-rent

Examples

  • καὶ ἢν τὸ ἐνοίκιον αἰτώμεθα, Περίμεινον, φήσομεν, ἔστ̓ ἂν Λάχησ ὁ Κολυττεὺσ ἀποθάνῃ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:4)
  • καὶ ἐλλόβια ταυτὶ καὶ δάπιδα, καὶ πρῴην δύο μνᾶσ, καὶ τὸ ἐνοίκιον κατέβαλεν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, οὐ σάνδαλα Παταρικὰ καὶ τυρὸν Γυθιακὸν καὶ φληνάφουσ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:14)
  • διαλυόντων δὲ οἱ πλούσιοι καὶ χρέα ὑπὲρ τῶν φίλων τῶν πενήτων καὶ τὸ ἐνοίκιον, οἵτινεσ ἂν καὶ τοῦτο ὀφείλοντεσ καταβαλεῖν μὴ ἔχωσι· (Lucian, Saturnalia, 2:12)
  • καὶ βασιλεὺσ μέν ἐστι μισθοῦ δ’ ἀναλύει συλλογισμούσ καὶ πάντα μὲν ἔχει μόνοσ ἐνοίκιον δὲ τελεῖ καὶ ἄλφιτ’ ὠνεῖται, πολλάκισ δανειζόμενοσ ἢ μεταιτῶν παρὰ τῶν οὐδὲν ἐχόντων. (Plutarch, Compendium Argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere, section 5 3:1)
  • ἴσωσ μὲν γάρ τι καὶ Θεόφραστοσ ἀληθὲσ εἶπεν, εἰπὼν ἐν μεταφορᾷ πολὺ τῷ σώματι τελεῖν ἐνοίκιον τὴν ψυχήν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 24 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. in the house

  2. house-rent

Related

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

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