μέτοικος

μετα- (meta-, indicating change) +‎ οἶκος (oîkos, “home”)

μέτοικος • (métoikos) m or f (genitive μετοίκου); second declension (Ionic, Attic, Koine)

1. metic; settler from abroad, alien resident in a foreign city-state, denizen, immigrant
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 548
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 994
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.151.2
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.13.7
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 15
2. (Koine only, rare) occupant of the same house
   • Sammelb. 5837

• (antonym(s) of “settler from abroad”): ἐγγενής (engenḗs)

• μετοικοφῠ́λᾰξ (metoikophúlax)

• Dutch: metoik
• Latin: metoecus, metycus
  • → Catalan: metec
  • → English: metic
  • → French: métèque
    • → Romanian: metec
  , metycus

• “μέτοικος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Learnely, from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos, “foreigner, metic”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.ti.kos/
• Hyphenation: μέ‧τοι‧κος

μέτοικος • (métoikos) m or f (plural μέτοικοι)

1. (historical) metic (Ancient Greece)
2. immigrant

For masculine:

Second forms are formal.  For feminine: