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οἰκέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκέτης οἰκέτου

Structure: οἰκετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: oi)ke/w

Sense

  1. a house-slave, menial

Declension

First declension

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

  • ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν τοῖσ ἰδίοισ οἴκοισ ἑνὶ μὲν καὶ δυοῖν οἰκέταιν χαλεπὸν χρήσασθαι, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κατὰ ἀλλήλων ὑπάρχουσιν, οὕτω κἀν ταῖσ δυναστείαισ τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν δεδουλωμένων βεβαιοῖ τὴν ἰσχὺν τοῖσ προειληφόσι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. a house-slave

Related

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

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