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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

  • "Ιὤν δ’ ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν Λαέρτῃ τὸν οἰκέτην ἐπὶ δούλου τέθεικεν εἰπών ἴθι μοι, δόμον, οἰκέτα, κλεῖσον ὑπόπτεροσ, μή τισ ἔλθῃ βροτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:100)

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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