οἴκημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From οἰκέω (oikéō, “I inhabit”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

Noun

οἴκημᾰ • (oíkēma) n (genitive οἰκήμᾰτος); third declension

1. dwelling-place, home, building
   • c. 522–443 BC, Pindar, Second Olympian Ode:

     εὐωνύμων τε πατέρων ἄωτον ὀρθόπολιν:

     καμόντες οἳ πολλὰ θυμῷ

     ἱερὸν ἔσχον οἴκημα ποταμοῦ, Σικελίας τ᾽ ἔσαν / ὀφθαλμός,

     1990, Diane Arnson Svarlien, translation of the Odes of Pindar:

     the strength of the city, the choicest bloom of illustrious ancestors,
     who labored much with their spirits,
     and won a sacred home by the river, and were the eye of Sicily;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 150, Pausanias, Description of Greece:

     μεγέθει μὲν μέγα τὸ οἴκημα, ἐντὸς δὲ αὐτοῦ κίονες κατὰ μῆκός εἰσιν ἑστηκότες:

     1918, translation by W. H. S. Jones of the Description of Greece by Pausanias:

     The building is large, and within are pillars standing throughout its length.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. room, chamber
2. brothel
   • Herodotus, Histories, Book 2:

     τὴν θυγατέρα τὴν ἑωυτοῦ κατίσαι ἐπ᾽ οἰκήματος,

     1920, translation by A. D. Godley:

     he put his own daughter in a brothel,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. temple, shrine
   • Herodotus, Histories, Book 8:

     πρῶτα μὲν καὶ μέγιστα τῶν θεῶν τὰ ἀγάλματα καὶ τὰ οἰκήματα ἐμπεπρησμένα τε καὶ συγκεχωσμένα,

     1920, translation by A. D. Godley:

     first and foremost, the burning and destruction of the adornments and temples of our gods,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. room in a temple
4. prison; cell
   • Acts 12.7:

     καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος κυρίου ἐπέστη, καὶ φῶς ἔλαμψεν ἐν τῷ οἰκήματι: πατάξας δὲ τὴν πλευρὰν τοῦ Πέτρου ἤγειρεν αὐτὸν λέγων, Ἀνάστα ἐν τάχει. καὶ ἐξέπεσαν αὐτοῦ αἱ ἁλύσεις ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν.

     Acts 12.7 (KVJ):

     And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

5. storeroom
6. workshop
7. story, floor
8. cage for animals
9. (a horse’s) stable, stall

Declension

Synonyms

• (cage for animals): οἰκίσκος (oikískos)

Derived terms

• κατοίκημα (katoíkēma)

Descendants

• Greek: οίκημα (oíkima)

References

• “οἴκημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οἴκημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οἴκημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “οἴκημα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3612 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• οἴκημα 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.
  • building idem, page 103.
  • cabinet idem, page 108.
  • chamber idem, page 123.
  • domicile idem, page 247.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • floor idem, page 329.
  • habitation idem, page 380.
  • home idem, page 403.
  • house idem, page 408.
  • residence idem, page 701.
  • room idem, page 721.
  • saloon idem, page 732.
  • store room idem, page 821.
  • storey idem, page 821.