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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Present passive participle of οἰκέω (oikéō, “I inhabit, dwell”). The noun use is an ellipsis of οἰκουμένη γῆ (oikouménē gê, “inhabited earth”).
Participle
οἰκουμένη • (oikouménē)
- feminine nominative/vocative singular of οἰκούμενος (oikoúmenos)
Noun
οἰκουμένη • (oikouménē) f (genitive οἰκουμένης); first declension
- inhabited region
- the inhabited world, particularly the region known to the ancient Greeks: (sub-polar) Europe, (western) Asia, and (northern and Saharan) Africa
- (Byzantine) the civilized world, particularly the land of the Roman or Byzantine Empire
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References
- “οἰκουμένη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οἰκουμένη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οἰκουμένη 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
- G3625 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible