κατοικία

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See also: κατοίκια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κᾰ́τοικος (kátoikos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.toi̯.kí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.tyˈki.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.tyˈci.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.tyˈci.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.tiˈci.a/

Noun

κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ • (katoikíā) f (genitive κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱς); first declension

habitation
- Hecat. 119.J.
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.78.5
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.4.8
1. farm, village
  - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.32.4
2. (generally) dwelling-place, domicile
  - Act.Ap. 17.26
  - Chr. 31i.23
settlement, colony
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.4.11
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 47
1. (and especially) military colonies (in Egypt)
  - PTeb. 61b.227
2. = the Latin colōnia
  - 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 6.2.5
  - 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Mark Antony 16
  - 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 5.19
body of residents in a foreign city
- IG, Rom. 4.834

Declension

First declension of ἡ κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ hē katoikíā	τὼ κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ tṑ katoikíā	αἱ κᾰτοικῐ́αι hai katoikíai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱς tês katoikíās	τοῖν κᾰτοικῐ́αιν toîn katoikíain	τῶν κᾰτοικῐῶν tôn katoikiôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτοικῐ́ᾳ têi katoikíāi	τοῖν κᾰτοικῐ́αιν toîn katoikíain	ταῖς κᾰτοικῐ́αις taîs katoikíais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱν tḕn katoikíān	τὼ κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ tṑ katoikíā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱς tā̀s katoikíās
Vocative	κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ katoikíā	κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ katoikíā	κᾰτοικῐ́αι katoikíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: κατοικία (katoikía)

Further reading

“κατοικία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κατοικία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κατοικία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2733 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κατοικία (katoikía).

Noun

κατοικία • (katoikía) f (plural κατοικίες)

Declension

declension of κατοικία

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	κατοικία •	κατοικίες •
genitive	κατοικίας •	κατοικιών •
accusative	κατοικία •	κατοικίες •
vocative	κατοικία •	κατοικίες •

Synonyms

see: σπίτι n (spíti, “house, home”)

Derived terms

διπλοκατοικία (diplokatoikía)
μονοκατοικία (monokatoikía)
πολυκατοικία (polykatoikía)

Related terms

κατοικώ (katoikó, “to live at, to reside”)
κάτοικος m or f (kátoikos, “inhabitant”)

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