οἶκος
See also: οίκος and ϝοῖκος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ϝοῖκος (woîkos)
- ͷοῖκυ (voîku) – Pamphylian
Etymology
From ϝοῖκος (woîkos), from Proto-Hellenic *wóikos, from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“to enter, settle; settlement, homestead, village”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀺𐀒 (wo-ko /wojkos/, “home”), Latin vīcus (whence English wick (“village”)), Proto-Slavic *vьsь (“village”), Sanskrit विश् (viś) and वेश (veśa), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃, and Albanian vis.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ôi̯.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈy.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.kos/
(ancient) (file)
Noun
οἶκος • (oîkos) m (genitive οἴκου); second declension
- house, dwelling place
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.471:
- γέρων δ’ ἰθὺς κίεν οἴκου
- gérōn d’ ithùs kíen oíkou
- but the old man went straight toward the house
- γέρων δ’ ἰθὺς κίεν οἴκου
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.7:
- ἦλθ’ Ὀδυσεὺς καὶ οἶκον ἱκάνεται
- êlth’ Oduseùs kaì oîkon hikánetai
- Odysseus is here, and has come home
- ἦλθ’ Ὀδυσεὺς καὶ οἶκον ἱκάνεται
- room, chamber
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.356:
- ἀλλ’ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σ’ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε
- all’ eis oîkon ioûsa tà s’ autês érga kómize
- But go to thy chamber, and busy thyself with thine own tasks
- ἀλλ’ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σ’ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε
- meeting house, hall; monument
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.143
- 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1373
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 600
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 21:13
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 1.51
- birdcage
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 13.82
- (astrology) domicile of a planet
- 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 12.7
- 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 7.25
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Book of Sothis 2.141
- 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 162.2
- estate, inheritance
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.64:
- οὐδ’ ἔτι καλῶς οἶκος ἐμὸς διόλωλε
- oud’ éti kalôs oîkos emòs diólōle
- and past all that is seemly has my estate been destroyed
- οὐδ’ ἔτι καλῶς οἶκος ἐμὸς διόλωλε
- reigning house or family
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.31.4:
- σὺ ἐς οἶκον τὸν βασιλέος ἐξηγητὴς γίνεαι πρηγμάτων ἀγαθῶν
- sù es oîkon tòn basiléos exēgētḕs gíneai prēgmátōn agathôn
- This plan which you set forth is profitable for the king's house
- σὺ ἐς οἶκον τὸν βασιλέος ἐξηγητὴς γίνεαι πρηγμάτων ἀγαθῶν
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ οἶκος; τοῦ οἴκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ οἶκος ho oîkos | τὼ οἴκω tṑ oíkō | οἱ οἶκοι hoi oîkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οἴκου toû oíkou | τοῖν οἴκοιν toîn oíkoin | τῶν οἴκων tôn oíkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οἴκῳ tôi oíkōi | τοῖν οἴκοιν toîn oíkoin | τοῖς οἴκοις toîs oíkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οἶκον tòn oîkon | τὼ οἴκω tṑ oíkō | τοὺς οἴκους toùs oíkous | ||||||||||
Vocative | οἶκε oîke | οἴκω oíkō | οἶκοι oîkoi | ||||||||||
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Second declension of ὁ ϝοῖκος; τοῦ ϝοίκω (Laconian)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ϝοῖκος ho woîkos | τὼ ϝοίκω tṑ woíkō | τοὶ ϝοῖκοι toì woîkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ϝοίκω toû woíkō | τοῖν ϝοίκοιν toîn woíkoin | τῶν ϝοίκων tôn woíkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ϝοίκῳ tôi woíkōi | τοῖν ϝοίκοιν toîn woíkoin | τοῖς ϝοίκοις toîs woíkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ϝοῖκον tòn woîkon | τὼ ϝοίκω tṑ woíkō | τὼς ϝοίκως tṑs woíkōs | ||||||||||
Vocative | ϝοῖκε woîke | ϝοίκω woíkō | ϝοῖκοι woîkoi | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- δόμος (dómos)
Derived terms
- κάτοικος (kátoikos)
- Μενοικεύς (Menoikeús)
- μύλοικος (múloikos)
- οἰκοβᾰσῐλικόν (oikobasilikón)
- οἰκόβῐος (oikóbios)
- οἰκογενής (oikogenḗs)
- οἰκοδέγμων (oikodégmōn)
- οἰκοδέκτωρ (oikodéktōr)
- οἰκοδεσπόζω (oikodespózō)
- οἰκοδέσποινᾰ (oikodéspoina)
- οἰκοδεσπότης (oikodespótēs)
- οἰκοδῐ́αιτος (oikodíaitos)
- οἰκοδομέω (oikodoméō)
- οἰκοδοχεύς (oikodokheús)
- οἰκόθετος (oikóthetos)
- οἰκόθρεπτος (oikóthreptos)
- οἰκοκερδής (oikokerdḗs)
- οἰκοκρᾰτέομαι (oikokratéomai)
- οἰκομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (oikomakhíā)
- οἰκονομέω (oikonoméō)
- οἰκοποιός (oikopoiós)
- οἰκόσῑτος (oikósītos)
- οἰκοσκευή (oikoskeuḗ)
- οἰκοσκοπικόν (oikoskopikón)
- οἰκοσόος (oikosóos)
- οἰκοτρᾰφής (oikotraphḗs)
- οἴκοτριψ (oíkotrips)
- οἰκότροφος (oikótrophos)
- οἰκοτῠ́ραννος (oikotúrannos)
- οἰκουργός (oikourgós)
- οἰκουρός (oikourós)
- οἰκόφθορος (oikóphthoros)
- οἰκοφόρος (oikophóros)
- οἰκοφῠ́λαξ (oikophúlax)
- οἰκῶνᾰξ (oikônax)
- οἰκωφελής (oikōphelḗs)
- πᾰ́ροικος (pároikos)
Related terms
- οἴκᾰδε (oíkade)
- οἰκᾰ́ρῐον (oikárion)
- οἴκει (oíkei)
- οἰκεῖος (oikeîos)
- οἰκέτης (oikétēs)
- οἰκεύς (oikeús)
- οἰκέω (oikéō)
- οἰκῐ́ᾱ (oikíā)
- οἰκῐ́δῐος (oikídios)
- οἰκῐ́ζω (oikízō)
- οἰκῐ́ον (oikíon)
- οἴκισῐς (oíkisis)
- οἰκῐ́σκος (oikískos)
- οἴκοθεν (oíkothen)
- οἴκοι (oíkoi)
- οἶκόνδε (oîkónde)
- οἴκοσε (oíkose)
Descendants
- Greek: οίκος (oíkos)
Further reading
- “οἶκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οἶκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οἶκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οἶκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οἶκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “οἶκος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3624 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- οἶκος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abode idem, page 2.
- apartment idem, page 33.
- cabinet idem, page 108.
- chamber idem, page 123.
- domicile idem, page 247.
- dwelling idem, page 257.
- establishment idem, page 283.
- estate idem, page 283.
- family idem, page 305.
- govern idem, page 367.
- habitation idem, page 380.
- home idem, page 403.
- house idem, page 408.
- household idem, page 408.
- residence idem, page 701.
- room idem, page 721.
- saloon idem, page 732.
- BDAG
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN