οἰκία

See also: οικία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οἰκί’ (oikí’) — apocopic
• οἰκίη (oikíē) — Ionic
• ϝοικία (woikía) — Doric, Locrian
• ϝυκία (wukía) — Boeotian

Etymology 1

From οἰκέω (oikéō) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oi̯.kí.aː/ → /yˈci.a/ → /iˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oi̯.kí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /yˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈci.a/

Noun

οἰκῐ́ᾱ • (oikĭ́ā) f (genitive οἰκῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. house, dwelling, lair
2. household, domestic affairs
3. household, family
4. house, extended family, tribe

Usage notes

In Attic law, οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) was all the property left by a person, while οἰκία was the house on that property.

Declension

First declension of ἡ οἰκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς οἰκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ οἰκῐ́ᾱ hē oikĭ́ā	τὼ οἰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ oikĭ́ā	αἱ οἰκῐ́αι hai oikĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς οἰκῐ́ᾱς tês oikĭ́ās	τοῖν οἰκῐ́αιν toîn oikĭ́ain	τῶν οἰκῐῶν tôn oikĭôn
Dative	τῇ οἰκῐ́ᾳ tēî oikĭ́āi	τοῖν οἰκῐ́αιν toîn oikĭ́ain	ταῖς οἰκῐ́αις taîs oikĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν οἰκῐ́ᾱν tḕn oikĭ́ān	τὼ οἰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ oikĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς οἰκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s oikĭ́ās
Vocative	οἰκῐ́ᾱ oikĭ́ā	οἰκῐ́ᾱ oikĭ́ā	οἰκῐ́αι oikĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: οικία (oikía)

Further reading

• “οἰκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οἰκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οἰκία” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3614 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abode idem, page 2.
  • domicile idem, page 247.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • habitation idem, page 380.
  • home idem, page 403.
  • house idem, page 408.
  • household idem, page 408.
  • residence idem, page 701.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• οἰκί’ (oikí’) — apocopic

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oi̯.kí.a/ → /yˈci.a/ → /iˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oi̯.kí.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /yˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈci.a/

Noun

οἰκίᾰ • (oikíă)

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of οἰκίον (oikíon)