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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

  • συμβουλεῦσαι μέντοι ἔχω σοί τε καὶ τοῖσ οἰκισταῖσ, ὃ εἰπόντοσ μὲν ἐμοῦ, φησὶν Ἡσίοδοσ, δόξαι ἂν εἶναι φαῦλον, χαλεπὸν δὲ νοῆσαι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 11 4:3)
  • σοὶ δὲ κατὰ πάντα ἐμμελῶσ ἔχει καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ οἰκισταῖσ κατὰ ταὐτά, ὥσπερ τὰ περὶ σοῦ νῦν λεγόμενα. (Plato, Laws, book 6 14:4)
  • οἰκισταῖσ δὲ τοὺσ μὲν τύπουσ προσήκει εἰδέναι ἐν οἷσ δεῖ μυθολογεῖν τοὺσ ποιητάσ, παρ’ οὓσ ἐὰν ποιῶσιν οὐκ ἐπιτρεπτέον, οὐ μὴν αὐτοῖσ γε ποιητέον μύθουσ. (Plato, Republic, book 2 367:1)
  • μόνῳ γοῦν Λυκούργῳ ἱερὸν ἱδρῦσθαι καὶ θύεσθαι κατ’ ἔτοσ, ἐκείνοισ δὲ καίπερ οἰκισταῖσ γενομένοισ μηδὲ τοῦτο δεδόσθαι ὥστε τοὺσ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν τοὺσ μὲν Εὐρυσθενίδασ τοὺσ δὲ Προκλείδασ καλεῖσθαι, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ μὲν Ἀγίδασ ἀπὸ Ἄγιδοσ τοῦ Εὐρυσθένουσ τοὺσ δ’ Εὐρυπωντίδασ ἀπὸ Εὐρυπῶντοσ τοῦ Προκλέουσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 5 10:15)
  • ὅθεν οὐδ’ ἀρχηγέτασ νομισθῆναι ὅπερ πᾶσιν ἀποδέδοται οἰκισταῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 5 10:17)

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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