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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

  • τὸ δὲ αὐτὸ τοῦτο κἂν Θηβαίουσ οἶμαι παθεῖν, εἴ τισ τὰ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἀτυχήματα ψευδῆ ἀποφαίνοι, καὶ οὔτε τὸν πατέρα Οἰδίπουν ἀποκτείναντα οὔτε τῇ μητρὶ συγγενόμενον οὔθ’ ἑαυτὸν τυφλώσαντα οὔτε τοὺσ παῖδασ αὐτοῦ πρὸ τοῦ τείχουσ ἀποθανόντασ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων, οὔθ’ ὡσ ἡ Σφὶγξ ἀφικομένη κατεσθίοι τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ἥδονται ἀκούοντεσ καὶ τὴν Σφίγγα ἐπιπεμφθεῖσαν αὐτοῖσ διὰ χόλον Ἥρασ καὶ τὸν Λάιον ὑπὸ τοῦ υἱέοσ ἀναιρεθέντα καὶ τὸν Οἰδίπουν ταῦτα ποιήσαντα καὶ παθόντα τυφλὸν ἀλᾶσθαι, καὶ πρότερον ἄλλου βασιλέωσ αὐτῶν καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ οἰκιστοῦ, Ἀμφίονοσ, τοὺσ παῖδασ, ἀνθρώπων καλλίστουσ γενομένουσ, κατατοξευθῆναι ὑπὸ Ἀπόλλωνοσ καὶ Ἀρτέμιδοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 10:1)
  • ὄνομα δὲ ἦν αὐτοῖσ, ὃ δὴ καὶ ἐσ Πελοπόννησον διεσώσαντο, ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ Δρύοπεσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 16:2)
  • τεθῆναι δὲ τῇ πόλει τὸ ὄνομά φασιν ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ Λεπρέου τοῦ Πυργέωσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 8:1)
  • Ποτιδαιάτασ δὲ δὶσ μὲν ἐπέλαβεν ἀναστάτουσ ἐκ τῆσ σφετέρασ ὑπὸ Φιλίππου τε γενέσθαι τοῦ Ἀμύντου καὶ πρότερον ἔτι ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων, χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον Κάσσανδροσ κατήγαγε μὲν Ποτιδαιάτασ ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα, ὄνομα δὲ οὐ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῇ πόλει, Κασσάνδρεια δὲ ἐγένετο ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 5:4)
  • ὄνομα μὲν Λάμποσ τῷ ἀνδρί, πατρὶσ δὲ ἦν αὐτῷ νεωτάτη τῶν ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ πόλεων, καλουμένη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ Φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀμύντου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 17:4)

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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