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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

  • μνησθεὶσ Ἁβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ τῶν σῶν οἰκετῶν, οἷσ ὤμοσασ κατὰ σεαυτοῦ καὶ ἐλάλησασ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ λέγων. πολυπληθυνῶ τὸ σπέρμα ὑμῶν ὡσεὶ τὰ ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῷ πλήθει, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ταύτην, ἣν εἶπασ δοῦναι τῷ σπέρματι αὐτῶν, καὶ καθέξουσιν αὐτὴν εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 32:13)
  • "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)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ταῦτα καὶ καλὰ πρὸσ ἀρετὴν καὶ ὠφέλιμα πρὸσ οἰκονομίαν, ἐγείρεσθαι χρὴ πρότερον δεσπότασ οἰκετῶν καὶ καθεύδειν ὕστερον· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 39:1)
  • καὶ μὴν καὶ ἐσθῆτοσ ὑπὲρ τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν δύναμιν ἐπιμεληθῆναι χρὴ πρὸσ τὸ τοῦ θεραπευομένου ἀξίωμα, καὶ χρώματα αἱρεῖσθαι οἷσ ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ ἥδηται, ὡσ μὴ ἀπᾴδῃσ μηδὲ προσκρούῃσ βλεπόμενοσ, καὶ φιλοπόνωσ ἕπεσθαι, μᾶλλον δὲ ἡγεῖσθαι, ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκετῶν προωθούμενον καὶ ὥσπερ τινὰ πομπὴν ἀναπληροῦντα. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 10:4)
  • καὶ ἥ τε οἰκετεία εἰσ σὲ ἀποβλέπει καὶ τῶν παρόντων ἕκαστοσ ὅ τι πράξεισ ἐπιτηροῦσιν, οὐδὲ αὐτῷ δὲ ἀμελὲσ τῷ πλουσίῳ τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ καὶ προεῖπέ τισι τῶν οἰκετῶν ἐπισκοπεῖν εἴ πωσ εἰσ τοὺσ παῖδασ ἢ εἰσ τὴν γυναῖκα πολλάκισ ἐκ περιωπῆσ ἀποβλέψεισ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 15:3)

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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