Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μέτοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέτοικος

Structure: μετοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. changing one's abode, emigrating and settling elsewhere
  2. an alien settled in a foreign city, a settler, emigrant, sojourner, one who has settled in
  3. a resident alien

Examples

  • καὶ ἐξήγαγε Πασχὼρ τὸν Ἱερεμίαν ἐκ τοῦ καταρράκτου, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ἱερεμίασ. οὐχὶ Πασχὼρ ἐκάλεσε Κύριοσ τὸ ὄνομά σου, ἀλλ’ ἢ Μέτοικον. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 20:3)
  • ἐν ᾧ τὴν αἰτίαν πρώτωσ ἐπιδείκνυσιν ὁ περὶ τοῦ ξένου ποιούμενοσ τοὺσ λόγουσ ὥσπερ ὁ τὸν μέτοικον ἐξαιρούμενοσ εἰσ ἐλευθερίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 63)
  • παρά γε τοῖσ ἄφροσιν, οἳ καὶ τὸν πτωχὸν λοιδόρημα ποιοῦνται καὶ τὸν φαλακρὸν καὶ τὸν μικρόν, καὶ νὴ Δία τὸν ξένον καὶ τὸν μέτοικον. (Plutarch, De exilio, section 172)
  • τῶν δ’ ἀκουσίων καὶ βουλεύσεωσ, κἂν οἰκέτην ἀποκτείνῃ τισ ἢ μέτοικον ἢ ξένον, οἱ ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 3:3)
  • εἴτ’ οὖν κομίζειν δόξα νικήσει φίλων, εἴτ’ οὖν μέτοικον, εἰσ τὸ πᾶν ἀεὶ ξένον, θάπτειν, ἐφετμὰσ τάσδε πόρθμευσον πάλιν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode17)

Synonyms

  1. an alien settled in a foreign city

Related

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

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