Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰκέτης οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέται
Genitive οἰκέτου οἰκέταιν οἰκετῶν
Dative οἰκέτῃ οἰκέταιν οἰκέταις
Accusative οἰκέτην οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέτᾱς
Vocative οἰκέτα οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέται

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

  • ἀποκριθεὶσ δὲ Ἰσαὰκ εἶπε τῷ Ἡσαῦ. εἰ κύριον αὐτὸν πεποίηκά σου καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ ἀδελφούσ αὐτοῦ πεποίηκα αὐτοῦ οἰκέτασ, σίτῳ καὶ οἴνῳ ἐστήριξα αὐτόν, σοὶ δὲ τί ποιήσω, τέκνον̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:37)
  • καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ σου ἔσται ὡσ σύ, καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ οἰκέτασ σου παρρησιάσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 6:11)
  • "σὺ μέντοι γε, ὦ Ἀλέξανδρε, τὸν δεῖνα Παφλαγόνα προσαγαγεῖν οἰκέτασ αὐτοῦ τῷ ἡγουμένῳ τῆσ Γαλατίασ τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἀνέπεισασ ὡσ ἀπεκτονότασ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ παιδευόμενον, ὁ δὲ νεανίσκοσ ζῇ καὶ ἐπανελήλυθε ζῶν μετὰ τὴν τῶν οἰκετῶν ἀπώλειαν, θηρίοισ ὑπὸ σοῦ παραδοθέντων. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 44:3)
  • ὥσπερ δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὅταν μὴ γίγνηται τοῖσ βελτίοσι βέλτιον μηδὲ ἆθλα ᾖ ἀρετῆσ καὶ κακίασ, γίγνονται χείρουσ, οὕτω καὶ περὶ οἰκέτασ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 29:1)
  • Λακεδαιμόνιοι Σαμίων δεηθέντων χρήματα αὐτοῖσ εἰσ τὴν κάθοδον δοῦναι, ἐψηφίσαντο μίαν ἡμέραν καὶ αὐτοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ οἰκέτασ καὶ τὰ ὑποζύγια νηστεῦσαι, ὅσον δὲ ἐδαπάνα ἕκαστοσ, τοσοῦτον δοῦναι τοῖσ Σαμίοισ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 40:1)

Synonyms

  1. a house-slave

Related

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION