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οἰκιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκιστής οἰκιστοῦ

Structure: οἰκιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: oi)ki/zw

Sense

  1. a coloniser, founder of a city

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰκιστής οἰκιστᾱ́ οἰκισταί
Genitive οἰκιστοῦ οἰκισταῖν οἰκιστῶν
Dative οἰκιστῇ οἰκισταῖν οἰκισταῖς
Accusative οἰκιστήν οἰκιστᾱ́ οἰκιστᾱ́ς
Vocative οἰκιστά οἰκιστᾱ́ οἰκισταί

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

  • καί οἱ τελευτήσαντι Χερσονησῖται θύουσι ὡσ νόμοσ οἰκιστῇ, καὶ ἀγῶνα ἱππικόν τε καὶ γυμνικὸν ἐπιστᾶσι, ἐν τῷ Λαμψακηνῶν οὐδενὶ ἐγγίνεται ἀγωνίζεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 38 2:2)
  • καὶ Θήρασ μὲν τῇ τε νήσῳ μετέβαλεν ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα καί οἱ καὶ νῦν ἔτι οἱ Θηραῖοι κατὰ ἔτοσ ἐναγίζουσιν ὡσ οἰκιστῇ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 12:2)
  • αἰσχρὸν γὰρ εἰ Ἀμφιπολῖται μὲν Βρασίδᾳ θύειν ἠξίουν ὡσ ἡρ́ωι καὶ οἰκιστῇ, ὅτι αὐτοὺσ Ἀθηναίων ἀπέστησεν, ὑμεῖσ δὲ ὃσ ὑμᾶσ συνέστησεν ἅπασι τοῖσ Ἕλλησι, καὶ ὃσ δυσχεροῦσ μὲν οὐδενὸσ οὐδενὶ πώποτε αἴτιοσ κατέστη, πάντασ δὲ ὠφελῶν καὶ λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ διετέλεσεν ἀφ’ ὑμῶν ἀρξάμενοσ τῆσ πατρίδοσ, τοῦτον μὴ ἐμέλλετε ἐν ἀρχηγέτου μοίρᾳ τιμήσειν, κοινοῦ γε τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν, ὡσ ἐγώ φημι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:12)

Synonyms

  1. a coloniser

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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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