Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οἰκήϊος ‎(oikḗïos) Ionic

Adjective

οἰκεῖος • ‎(oikeîos) m ‎(feminine οἰκείᾱ, neuter οἰκεῖον); first/second declension

1. in the house, at home
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 457

     τῶν πρόσθεν μελέτην ἐχέμεν οἰκήϊα θέσθαι

     Take care to lay these up beforehand at home.

2. of the house, domestic
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.37.4

     οὔτε τι γὰρ τῶν οἰκηΐων τρίβουσι οὔτε δαπανῶνται

     They do not consume or spend anything of the household.

3. of the same household; familial, related
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.65

     ὥς οἱ ἐόντες οἰκήϊοι

     as being related to him

4. friendly
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 4

     εἴχομέν ποθ᾽ ἡμεῖς [...] πάντα τὸν τόπον τοῦτον οἰκεῖον κύκλῳ

     we too once held [...] all of the surrounding friendly territory

5. belonging to one's house or family
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 12.19

     θερμὰ Νυμφᾶν λουτρὰ βαστάζεις, ὁμιλέων παρ᾽ οἰκείαις ἀρούραις

     You exalt the hot baths of the Nymphs, while keeping company with them beside your own fields.

6. belonging to oneself, personal, private
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.45.2

     Κροῖσος δὲ τούτων ἀκούσας τόν τε Ἄδρηστον κατοικτείρει, καίπερ ἐὼν ἐν κακῷ οἰκηίῳ τοσούτῳ

     On hearing this, Croesus took pity on Adrastus, though his own sorrow was so great.

7. proper, fitting, suitable
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 59

     οἰκείους καὶ ἀναγκαίους τῇ γραφῇ

     necessary and pertinent to the indictment

8. (with dative) belonging to
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1098.a.29

     ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἐφ᾽ ὅσον οἰκεῖον τῇ μεθόδῳ

     in such a degree as belongs to the particular line of enquiry

9. (astrology) domiciliary
   • 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 37.21
10. (Stoicism) endeared by nature
    • 279 BCE – 206 BCE, Chrysippus of Soli, Collected Works 3.43
    • Hierocl. 7.A

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: οικείος ‎(oikeíos)

References

• οἰκεῖος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οἰκεῖος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «οἰκεῖος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• οἰκεῖος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3609”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • acquaintance idem, page 8.
  • akin idem, page 21.
  • allied idem, page 23.
  • appropriate idem, page 37.
  • apt idem, page 37.
  • civil idem, page 133.
  • closely idem, page 139.
  • cognate idem, page 142.
  • conformable idem, page 159.
  • congruous idem, page 160.
  • connected idem, page 161.
  • connection idem, page 161.
  • distinctive idem, page 241.
  • domestic idem, page 246.
  • exclusive idem, page 289.
  • familiar idem, page 305.
  • friend idem, page 345.
  • friendly idem, page 345.
  • german, germane idem, page 357.
  • home idem, page 403.
  • home-grown idem, page 404.
  • household idem, page 408.
  • independent idem, page 432.
  • individual idem, page 434.
  • internal idem, page 452.
  • internecine idem, page 452.
  • intestine idem, page 453.
  • intimate idem, page 454.
  • kindred idem, page 469.
  • own idem, page 587.
  • particular idem, page 594.
  • peculiar idem, page 601.
  • pertinent idem, page 609.
  • private idem, page 642.
  • proper idem, page 653.
  • related idem, page 689.
  • relation idem, page 689.
  • relevant idem, page 690.
  • selfish idem, page 751.
  • separate idem, page 754.
  • special idem, page 799.
  • suitable idem, page 836.
  • unattached idem, page 907.