Ancient Greek

Participle

οἰκουμένη • ‎(oikouménē)

1. feminine nominative singular of οἰκούμενος ‎(oikoúmenos), present middle/passive participle of οἰκέω ‎(oikéō)
2. feminine vocative singular of οἰκούμενος ‎(oikoúmenos)

Alternative forms

• οἰκεομένη ‎(oikeoménē) (Uncontracted)

Noun

οἰκουμένη • ‎(oikouménē) f ‎(genitive οἰκουμένης); first declension

1. inhabited region
2. the inhabited world, particularly that known to the ancient Greeks: (sub-polar) Europe, (western) Asia, and (northern and Saharan) Africa
3. (Byzantine) the civilized world, particularly the land of the Roman or Byzantine Empire

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἡ οἰκουμὲνη ἡ μέλλουσα ‎(hē oikoumènē hē méllousa, “the world to come”)

References

• οἰκουμένη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οἰκουμένη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «οἰκουμένη» 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
• “G3625”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979