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οἰκογενής

οἰκογενής

Ancient Greek

Adjective

οἰκογενής • ‎(oikogenḗs) m, f ‎(neuter οἰκογενές); third declension

(of slaves) born in the house, homebred
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 82.b
  Σωκράτης Ἕλλην μέν ἐστι καὶ ἑλληνίζει;
  Μένων πάνυ γε σφόδρα, οἰκογενής γε.
  Socrates: Is [the slave boy] a Greek and speaks Greek?
  Meno: Very much so, in fact home-bred.

Inflection

Declension of οἰκογενής; οἰκογενές (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	οἰκογενής	οἰκογενές		οἰκογενεῖ	οἰκογενεῖ		οἰκογενεῖς	οἰκογενῆ
Genitive	οἰκογενοῦς	οἰκογενοῦς		οἰκογενοῖν	οἰκογενοῖν		οἰκογενῶν	οἰκογενῶν
Dative	οἰκογενεῖ	οἰκογενεῖ		οἰκογενοῖν	οἰκογενοῖν		οἰκογενέσῐ(ν)	οἰκογενέσῐ(ν)
Accusative	οἰκογενῆ	οἰκογενές		οἰκογενεῖ	οἰκογενεῖ		οἰκογενεῖς	οἰκογενῆ
Vocative	οἰκογενές	οἰκογενές		οἰκογενεῖ	οἰκογενεῖ		οἰκογενεῖς	οἰκογενῆ
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	οἰκογενῶς			οἰκογενέστερος			οἰκογενέστᾰτος
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

οἰκογενής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

οἰκογενής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
«οἰκογενής» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- home-bred idem, page 404.
- home-grown idem, page 404.