οἰκιστής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
οἶκος (oîkos) + -ιστής (-istḗs)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /oi̯.kis.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /y.kisˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /y.cisˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /y.cisˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.cisˈtis/
Noun
οἰκιστής • (oikistḗs) m (genitive οἰκιστοῦ); first declension
- founder of a colony, colonizer, settler
Declension
First declension of ὁ οἰκιστής; τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ οἰκιστής ho oikistḗs | τὼ οἰκιστᾱ́ tṑ oikistā́ | οἱ οἰκισταί hoi oikistaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ toû oikistoû | τοῖν οἰκισταῖν toîn oikistaîn | τῶν οἰκιστῶν tôn oikistôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οἰκιστῇ tôi oikistêi | τοῖν οἰκισταῖν toîn oikistaîn | τοῖς οἰκισταῖς toîs oikistaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οἰκιστήν tòn oikistḗn | τὼ οἰκιστᾱ́ tṑ oikistā́ | τοὺς οἰκιστᾱ́ς toùs oikistā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | οἰκιστᾰ́ oikistá | οἰκιστᾱ́ oikistā́ | οἰκισταί oikistaí | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- οἰκίζω (oikízō)
Descendants
- → English: oecist
Further reading
- οἰκιστής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “οἰκιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- coloniser idem, page 143.
- founder idem, page 341.
- settler idem, page 758.