οἰκήτωρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

οἰκέω (oikéō) +‎ -τωρ (-tōr)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oi̯.kɛ̌ː.tɔːr/ → /yˈci.tor/ → /iˈci.tor/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oi̯.kɛ̌ː.tɔːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /yˈke̝.tor/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈci.tor/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈci.tor/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈci.tor/

Noun

οἰκήτωρ • (oikḗtōr) m (genitive οἰκήτορος); third declension

1. inhabitant
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 353
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.103
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.9
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.34
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.153
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 91

Declension

Third declension of ὁ οἰκήτωρ; τοῦ οἰκήτορος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ οἰκήτωρ ho oikḗtōr	τὼ οἰκήτορε tṑ oikḗtore	οἱ οἰκήτορες hoi oikḗtores
Genitive	τοῦ οἰκήτορος toû oikḗtoros	τοῖν οἰκητόροιν toîn oikētóroin	τῶν οἰκητόρων tôn oikētórōn
Dative	τῷ οἰκήτορῐ tôi oikḗtori	τοῖν οἰκητόροιν toîn oikētóroin	τοῖς οἰκήτορσῐ / οἰκήτορσῐν toîs oikḗtorsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν οἰκήτορᾰ tòn oikḗtora	τὼ οἰκήτορε tṑ oikḗtore	τοὺς οἰκήτορᾰς toùs oikḗtoras
Vocative	οἰκῆτορ oikêtor	οἰκήτορε oikḗtore	οἰκήτορες oikḗtores
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• οἰκήτωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “οἰκήτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • colonist idem, page 143.
  • denizen idem, page 210.
  • inhabitant idem, page 440.
  • native idem, page 551.
  • settler idem, page 758.