Alternative forms

• ϝοῖκος (woîkos)
• ͷοῖκυ (woîku) — Pamphylian

Etymology

From ϝοῖκος (woîkos), from Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΟΙΚΟΣ *wóikos, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΟΙΚΟΣ *weyḱ- (“to enter, settle; settlement, homestead, village”).^[1] Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀺𐀒 (wo-ko /⁠wojkos⁠/, “home”), Latin vīcus (whence English wick (“village”)), Proto-Slavic *vьsь (“village”), Sanskrit विश् (víś)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ΟΙΚΟΣ and वे॒श (veśá)Category:Sanskrit terms with redundant transliterations#ΟΙΚΟΣ, Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 (weihs, “village”), and Albanian vis.

Pronunciation

Noun

οἶκος • (oîkos) m (genitive οἴκου)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek properispomenon terms#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek second-declension nouns#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΟΙΚΟΣCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΟΙΚΟΣ; second declension

1. dwelling place, settlement, house
   • c. 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

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   • c. 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

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2. room, chamber
   • c. 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

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3. meeting tent, meeting house, hall, monument
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.143
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1373
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 600
   • 70 CE – 90 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 21:13
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 1.51
4. birdcage
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 13.82
   • 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 Thessalonicensis 162.2
5. estate, inheritance
   • c. 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

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6. reigning family
   • 460 BCE – 430 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

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References

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