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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

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

  • τῶν γὰρ Ἀχαιῶν τὴν πόλιν παρ’ Ἀντιγόνου δωρεὰν λαβόντων καὶ κατοικίζειν ἐγνωκότων αὐτὸσ οἰκιστὴσ αἱρεθεὶσ καὶ στρατηγὸσ ὢν ἐψηφίσατο μηκέτι καλεῖν Μαντίνειαν, ἀλλ’ Ἀντιγόνειαν, ὃ καὶ μέχρι νῦν καλεῖται, καὶ δοκεῖ δι’ ἐκεῖνον ἡ μὲν ἐρατεινὴ Μαντίνεια παντάπασιν ἐξαληλίφθαι, διαμένει δὲ ἡ πόλισ ἐπώνυμοσ τῶν ἀπολεσάντων καὶ ἀνελόντων τοὺσ πολίτασ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 45 6:1)
  • διὸ καὶ πεμπομένων ἀποίκων εἰσ δύο πόλεισ, Νάρνειάν τε καὶ Κῶνσαν, ἄρχων ᾑρέθη καὶ οἰκιστήσ. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 1 4:2)
  • οἷσ οὐ μόνον ἀσφάλειαν ἐκ πολέμου τοσούτου καὶ γαλήνην ἱδρυομένοισ παρασχών, ἀλλὰ καὶ τἆλλα παρασκευάσασ καὶ συμπροθυμηθείσ ὥσπερ οἰκιστὴσ ἠγαπᾶτο. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 35 2:2)
  • ὁ δ’ οἰκιστὴσ ἐμβαλὼν ἀρότρῳ χαλκῆν ὕνιν, ὑποζεύξασ δὲ βοῦν ἄρρενα καὶ θήλειαν, αὐτὸσ μὲν ἐπάγει περιελαύνων αὔλακα βαθεῖαν τοῖσ τέρμασι, τῶν δ’ ἑπομένων ἔργον ἐστίν, ἃσ ἀνίστησι βώλουσ τὸ ἄροτρον, καταστρέφειν εἴσω καὶ μηδεμίαν ἔξω περιορᾶν ἐκτρεπομένην. (Plutarch, chapter 11 2:3)
  • τῷ δὲ ἀνδριάντι τοῦ Ἐπαμεινώνδου καὶ ἐλεγεῖα ἔπεστιν ἄλλα τε ἐσ αὐτὸν λέγοντα καὶ ὅτι Μεσσήνησ γένοιτο οἰκιστὴσ καὶ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ὑπάρξειεν ἐλευθερία δἰ αὐτοῦ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , mixed meters166)

Synonyms

  1. a coloniser

Related

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

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