Ancient Greek

Noun

οἶκος • ‎(oîkos) m ‎(genitive οἴκου); second declension

1. house or dwelling place
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.471

     γέρων δ᾽ ἰθὺς κίεν οἴκου

     but the old man went straight toward the house

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.7

     ἦλθ᾽ Ὀδυσεὺς καὶ οἶκον ἱκάνεται

     Odysseus is here, and has come home

   1. room, chamber
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.356

        ἀλλ᾽ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σ᾽ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε

        But go to thy chamber, and busy thyself with thine own tasks

   2. 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
   1. birdcage
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 13.82
   2. (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
2. estate, inheritance
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.64

     οὐδ᾽ ἔτι καλῶς οἶκος ἐμὸς διόλωλε

     and past all that is seemly has my estate been destroyed

3. reigning house or family
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.31.4

     σὺ ἐς οἶκον τὸν βασιλέος ἐξηγητὴς γίνεαι πρηγμάτων ἀγαθῶν

     This plan which you set forth is profitable for the king's house

Inflection

Synonyms

• δόμος ‎(dómos)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Greek: οίκος ‎(oíkos)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «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