Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

οἰκόσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκόσιτος οἰκόσιτον

Structure: οἰκοσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. taking one's meals at home, living at one's own expense, unpaid

Examples

  • οὐκ οἰκοσίτουσ τοὺσ ἀκροατὰσ λαμβάνεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 52 2:8)
  • ἀστεῖον τὸ μὴ συνάγειν γυναῖκασ μηδὲ δειπνίζειν ὄχλον, ἀλλ’ οἰκοσίτουσ τοὺσ γάμουσ πεποιηκέναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 52 3:2)
  • ἑτέρουσ δὲ μυρίουσ ὑπισχνεῖτο καταφράκτουσ καὶ τρισμυρίουσ πεζοὺσ οἰκοσίτουσ. (Plutarch, chapter 19 1:4)
  • καὶ ἐκδιδοὺσ αὑτοῦ θυγατέρα τοῦ μὲν ἱερείου πλὴν τῶν ἱερέων τὰ κρέα ἀποδόσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ διακονοῦντασ ἐν τοῖσ γάμοισ οἰκοσίτουσ μισθώσασθαι. (Theophrastus, Characters, 4:2)

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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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