οἶκος - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

οἶκος

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From ϝοῖκος (woîkos), from Proto-Hellenic *wóikos, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyḱos (“settlement”).[1] Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀺𐀒 (wo-ko /⁠wojkos⁠/, “home”), Latin vīcus (whence English wick (“village”)), Proto-Slavic *vьsь (“village”), Sanskrit विश् (víś) and वे॒श (veśá), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 (weihs, “village”), and Albanian vis.

οἶκος • (oîkos) m (genitive οἴκου); second declension

  1. dwelling place, settlement, house
    • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.471:
      γέρων δ’ ἰθὺς κίεν οἴκου
      gérōn d’ ithùs kíen oíkou
      but the old man went straight toward the house
    • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.7:
      ἦλθ’ Ὀδυσεὺς καὶ οἶκον ἱκάνεται
      êlth’ Oduseùs kaì oîkon hikánetai
      Odysseus is here, and has come home
  2. room, chamber
    • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.356:
      ἀλλ’ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σ’ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε
      all’ eis oîkon ioûsa tà s’ autês érga kómize
      But go to thy chamber, and busy thyself with thine own tasks
  3. meeting tent, meeting house, hall, monument
  4. birdcage
  5. estate, inheritance
    • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.64:
      οὐδ’ ἔτι καλῶς οἶκος ἐμὸς διόλωλε
      oud’ éti kalôs oîkos emòs diólōle
      and past all that is seemly has my estate been destroyed
  6. reigning family
    • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.31.4:
      σὺ ἐς οἶκον τὸν βασιλέος ἐξηγητὴς γίνεαι πρηγμάτων ἀγαθῶν
      sù es oîkon tòn basiléos exēgētḕs gíneai prēgmátōn agathôn
      This plan which you set forth is profitable for the king's house
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “οἶκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1055-6

Categories: