οἰκία

See also: οικία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οἰκίη (oikíē) (Ionic)
• ϝοικία (woikía) (Cretan, Locrian)
• ϝυκία (wukía) (Boeotian)

Etymology

From οἰκέω (oikéō) +‎ -ία (-ía).

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 • (oikíā) 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.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ οἰκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς οἰκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ οἰκῐ́ᾱ hē oikíā	τὼ οἰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ oikíā	αἱ οἰκῐ́αι hai oikíai
Genitive	τῆς οἰκῐ́ᾱς tês oikíās	τοῖν οἰκῐ́αιν toîn oikíain	τῶν οἰκῐῶν tôn oikiôn
Dative	τῇ οἰκῐ́ᾳ têi oikíāi	τοῖν οἰκῐ́αιν toîn oikíain	ταῖς οἰκῐ́αις taîs oikíais
Accusative	τὴν οἰκῐ́ᾱν tḕn oikíān	τὼ οἰκῐ́ᾱ tṑ oikíā	τᾱ̀ς οἰκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s oikíās
Vocative	οἰκῐ́ᾱ oikíā	οἰκῐ́ᾱ oikíā	οἰκῐ́αι oikíai
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.