Hellas Alive Dictionary - μετοικος

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μέτοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέτοικος

Structure: μετοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	μέτοικος	μέτοικον
	Genitive	μετοίκου	μετοίκου
	Dative	μετοίκῳ	μετοίκῳ
	Accusative	μέτοικον	μέτοικον
	Vocative	μέτοικε	μέτοικον
Dual	N/A/V	μετοίκω	μετοίκω
Dual	G/D	μετοίκοιν	μετοίκοιν
Plural	Nominative	μέτοικοι	μέτοικα
	Genitive	μετοίκων	μετοίκων
	Dative	μετοίκοις	μετοίκοις
	Accusative	μετοίκους	μέτοικα
	Vocative	μέτοικοι	μέτοικα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	μέτοικος μετοίκου	μετοικότερος μετοικοτέρου	μετοικότατος μετοικοτάτου
Adverb	μετοίκως	μετοικότερον	μετοικότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

βαρβάρουσ ἀφίξομαι γέρων μέτοικοσ· (Euripides, episode 6:13)
ἐγὼ δέ, ὦ πάτερ, εἰ καὶ μέτοικόσ εἰμι, οὐκ ὀκνήσω ὅμωσ τὰ δοκοῦντά μοι εἰπεῖν ὁπόταν γὰρ ἤδη συνελθόντεσ διαλέγωνται, τηνικαῦτα, ἢν μὲν ὁ Τιμοκλῆσ ὑπέρσχῃ, ἐάσωμεν προχωρεῖν τὴν συνουσίαν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, ἢν δέ τι ἑτεροῖον ἀποβαίνῃ, τότε ἤδη τὴν στοὰν αὐτὴν ἔγωγε, εἰ δοκεῖ, διασείσασ ἐμβαλῶ τῷ Δάμιδι, ὡσ μὴ κατάρατοσ ὢν ὑβρίζῃ ἐσ ἡμᾶσ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 32:1)
Διογνίδησ μὲν καὶ Ἀντίδωροσ ὁ μέτοικοσ εἰσαγγέλλονται ὡσ πλέονοσ μισθοῦντεσ τὰσ αὐλητρίδασ ἢ ὁ νόμοσ κελεύει, Ἀγασικλῆσ δ’ ὁ ἐκ Πειραιέωσ ὅτι εἰσ Ἁλιμουσίουσ ἐνεγρά[φη,] Εὐξένιπποσ δ’ [ὑπ]ὲρ τῶν ἐνυπνί[ων] ὧν φησιν ἑω[ρακέ]ναι· (Hyperides, Speeches, 3:1)
ἑώθεν οὖν προελθὼν ὁ μέτοικοσ εἰσ ἀγορὰν ἐπέθηκε τῇ ὠνῇ τάλαντον. (Plutarch, , chapter 5 2:3)
διὸ καὶ οὐθεὶσ ἂν εἴποι μικρόψυχον, εἴ τισ μέτοικοσ ὢν ἄρχειν μὴ ἀξιοῖ ἑαυτόν, ἀλλ’ ὑπείκει· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 115:2)

Synonyms

an alien settled in a foreign city
- ἔποικος (one who has settled among strangers, a settler, alien)

φυλέτης (one of the same tribe)
μετοικία (change of abode)
ξενών (a guest-chamber)
ξένος (foreign)
ἀστρατεία (exemption from service)
δίδραχμος (worth two drachms)
λιποτάξιον (desertion)
ἐπιζήμιος (bringing loss upon)
προστυγχάνω (to obtain one's share of)
ζημίωμα (a penalty)
δεκαπλάσιος (tenfold)
συκοφάντης (a false accuser)
ἀγώγιμος (easy to be led or carried)
ἀστυνόμος (protecting the city)
τοιχωρύχος (one who digs through the wall)
εὔγνωστος (well-known)
κλέπτης (thief)
μετοίκιον (the tax paid by the)
τροφεῖα (pay for bringing up)
λωποδύτης (one who slips into another's clothes)
ὁμωρόφιος (lodging under the same roof with)
ἀστός (a townsman)
ὑπόδικος (brought to trial or liable to be tried)
ἐπίτιμος (in possession of his rights and franchises)
πολῑ́της (citizen)
θεσμοθέτης (a lawgiver)
εἰσαγγελτικός (of or for impeachment)
μισθοφόρος (receiving wages or pay)
μισθοφορά (receipt of wages or wages received)
μητραλοίης (striking one's mother)

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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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μέτοικος

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an alien settled in a foreign city

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an alien settled in a foreign city

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