Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ykonomía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ykonomía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ikonomía/

Noun

οἰκονομία • ‎(oikonomía) f ‎(genitive οἰκονομίας); first declension

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

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: oeconomia

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • economy idem, page 261.
  • house keeping idem, page 408.
  • management idem, page 511.