οἰκονομία

See also: οικονομία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From οἰκονόμος (oikonómos, “manager”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from οἶκος (oîkos) +‎ νέμω (némō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oi̯.ko.no.mí.aː/ → /y.ko.noˈmi.a/ → /i.ko.noˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oi̯.ko.no.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /y.ko.noˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.ko.noˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.ko.noˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ko.noˈmi.a/

Noun

οἰκονομῐ́ᾱ • (oikonomíā) f (genitive οἰκονομῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. the management of a household or family, husbandry
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 36B
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 498A
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 1.1
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 6.8.3
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1.3–13
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 407B
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 2.6.42
   1. (of a state) administration, management
      • 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 102.29
   2. (of a poem) arrangement
      • Schol., Od. 1.328
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.142A
2. the public revenue of a state

Inflection

First declension of ἡ οἰκονομῐ́ᾱ; τῆς οἰκονομῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ οἰκονομῐ́ᾱ hē oikonomíā	τὼ οἰκονομῐ́ᾱ tṑ oikonomíā	αἱ οἰκονομῐ́αι hai oikonomíai
Genitive	τῆς οἰκονομῐ́ᾱς tês oikonomíās	τοῖν οἰκονομῐ́αιν toîn oikonomíain	τῶν οἰκονομῐῶν tôn oikonomiôn
Dative	τῇ οἰκονομῐ́ᾳ têi oikonomíāi	τοῖν οἰκονομῐ́αιν toîn oikonomíain	ταῖς οἰκονομῐ́αις taîs oikonomíais
Accusative	τὴν οἰκονομῐ́ᾱν tḕn oikonomíān	τὼ οἰκονομῐ́ᾱ tṑ oikonomíā	τᾱ̀ς οἰκονομῐ́ᾱς tā̀s oikonomíās
Vocative	οἰκονομῐ́ᾱ oikonomíā	οἰκονομῐ́ᾱ oikonomíā	οἰκονομῐ́αι oikonomíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: oeconomia (“management of household affairs; arrangement, economy”) (see there for further descendants)

References

• “οἰκονομία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οἰκονομία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οἰκονομία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3622 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• οἰκονομία 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • economy idem, page 261.
  • house keeping idem, page 408.
  • management idem, page 511.