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οἶκος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἶκος οἴκου

Structure: οἰκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. house or dwelling place
  2. room, chamber
  3. meeting house, hall; monument

Declension

Second 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

  • οἰκε, κνυζηθμοῖσ καὶ ὑλαγμοῖσ εἰκάζετε. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 82:4)
  • πολλοὺσ γὰρ οἶκε εἶναι εὐπετέστερον διαβάλλειν ἢ ἕνα, εἰ Κλεομένεα μὲν τὸν Λακεδαιμόνιον μοῦνον οὐκ οἱο͂́σ τε ἐγένετο διαβάλλειν, τρεῖσ δὲ μυριάδασ Ἀθηναίων ἐποίησε τοῦτο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 97 3:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ δαιμονίη τισ γίνεται ὁρμή, καὶ Ἕλληνασ, ὡσ οἶκε, καταλαμβάνει τισ φθορὴ θεήλατοσ, ἐγὼ μὲν καὶ αὐτὸσ τρέπομαι καὶ τὴν γνώμην μετατίθεμαι, σὺ δὲ σήμηνον μὲν Πέρσῃσι τὰ ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ πεμπόμενα, χρᾶσθαι δὲ κέλευε τοῖσι ἐκ σέο πρώτοισι προειρημένοισι ἐσ τὴν παρασκευήν, ποίεε δὲ οὕτω ὅκωσ τοῦ θεοῦ παραδιδόντοσ τῶν σῶν ἐνδεήσει μηδέν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 18 4:2)
  • οἶκε δὲ αὐτοῦ αὕτη ἡ γνώμη τῇ γε ἄλλῃ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 147 3:1)
  • ἐν ὑμῖν γὰρ οἶκε εἶναι ἐμοὶ ἡ σωτηρίη. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 118 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. house or dwelling place

  2. room

  3. meeting house

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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