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Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
From οἰκέω (oikéō) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oi̯.kí.aː/ → /yˈci.a/ → /iˈci.a/
Noun
οἰκῐ́ᾱ • (oikíā) f (genitive οἰκῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- house, dwelling, lair
- household, domestic affairs
- household, family
- house, extended family, tribe
Usage notes
In Attic law, οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) was all the property left by a person, while οἰκία was the house on that property.
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “οἰκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οἰκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οἰκία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3614 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oi̯.kí.a/ → /yˈci.a/ → /iˈci.a/
Noun
οἰκίᾰ • (oikía)
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of οἰκίον (oikíon)