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οἰκότριψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκότριψ οἰκότριβος

Structure: οἰκοτριβ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tri/bw

Sense

  1. a slave born and bred in the house

Declension

Third 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

  • τοιγαροῦν ἵν’ ἐλεύθεροι ὦμεν δανεισάμενοι, κολακεύομεν οἰκότριβασ ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ δορυφοροῦμεν καὶ δειπνίζομεν καὶ δῶρα καὶ φόρουσ ὑποτελοῦμεν, οὐ διὰ τὴν πενίαν ̔ οὐδεὶσ γὰρ δανείζει πένητἰ, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὴν πολυτέλειαν. (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 6:6)
  • νῦν δ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, φθόρουσ ἀνθρώπουσ οἰκοτρίβων οἰκότριβασ, τιμὴν ὥσπερ ἄλλου του τῶν ὠνίων λαμβάνοντεσ, ποιεῖσθε πολίτασ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 29:2)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδ̓ ἡδονάσ τινασ σίτων ἢ ἀφροδισίων ἢ γυναικὸσ κάλλοσ ἢ παιδὸσ ὡρ́αν τεθαυμακὼσ καὶ τούτων ἐπιθυμῶν καὶ μεγάλα ἡγούμενοσ, εὐδαιμονίζοι ἂν τοὺσ τυγχάνοντασ αὐτῶν, σατράπασ καὶ δυνάστασ καὶ νὴ Δία βαναύσουσ τινὰσ καὶ οἰκότριβασ, πεπλουτηκότασ τοὺσ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆσ τέχνησ, τοὺσ δὲ τὰ τῶν δεσποτῶν ὑφαιρουμένουσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 50:1)

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

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