οἰκογενής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
οἶκος (oîkos, “a house”) + -γενής (-genḗs, “born in”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /oi̯.ko.ɡe.nɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /y.ko.ɡeˈne̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /y.ko.ʝeˈnis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /y.ko.ʝeˈnis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.ko.ʝeˈnis/
Adjective
οἰκογενής • (oikogenḗs) m or f (neuter οἰκογενές); third declension
- (of slaves) born in the house, homebred
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 82b:
- Σωκράτης Ἕλλην μέν ἐστι καὶ ἑλληνίζει;
Μένων πάνυ γε σφόδρα, οἰκογενής γε.- Sōkrátēs Héllēn mén esti kaì hellēnízei?
Ménōn pánu ge sphódra, oikogenḗs ge. - Socrates: Is [the slave boy] a Greek and speaks Greek?
Meno: Very much so, in fact home-bred.
- Sōkrátēs Héllēn mén esti kaì hellēnízei?
- Σωκράτης Ἕλλην μέν ἐστι καὶ ἑλληνίζει;
Inflection
Third declension of οἰκογενής; οἰκογενές (contracted, Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | οἰκογενής oikogenḗs | οἰκογενές oikogenés | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενεῖς oikogeneîs | οἰκογενῆ oikogenê | ||||||||
Genitive | οἰκογενοῦς oikogenoûs | οἰκογενοῦς oikogenoûs | οἰκογενοῖν oikogenoîn | οἰκογενοῖν oikogenoîn | οἰκογενῶν oikogenôn | οἰκογενῶν oikogenôn | ||||||||
Dative | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενοῖν oikogenoîn | οἰκογενοῖν oikogenoîn | οἰκογενέσῐ / οἰκογενέσῐν oikogenési(n) | οἰκογενέσῐ / οἰκογενέσῐν oikogenési(n) | ||||||||
Accusative | οἰκογενῆ oikogenê | οἰκογενές oikogenés | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενεῖς oikogeneîs | οἰκογενῆ oikogenê | ||||||||
Vocative | οἰκογενές oikogenés | οἰκογενές oikogenés | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενεῖ oikogeneî | οἰκογενεῖς oikogeneîs | οἰκογενῆ oikogenê | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
οἰκογενῶς oikogenôs | οἰκογενέστερος oikogenésteros | οἰκογενέστᾰτος oikogenéstatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: οικογένεια (oikogéneia)
References
“οἰκογενής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οἰκογενής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οἰκογενής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- home-bred idem, page 404.
- home-grown idem, page 404.