Ancient Greek

Verb

κατοικέω • ‎(katoikéō)

1. to dwell in, to settle in, to colonise
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.164
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 10
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 91
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 40
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1266.B.2
   1. (absolute) to settle, dwell
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 362
      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 153
      • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1651
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 666.E
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.34
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 36
      • New Testament, Revelation 3.10
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.96
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.8
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
2. to administer, govern
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 2.225.S
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1004
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 683.A
3. (intransitive, of cities) to lie, be situated
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 677.C
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 123

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἐγκᾰτοικέω ‎(enkatoikéō)
• ἐπῐκᾰτοικέω ‎(epikatoikéō)
• πετροκᾰτοίκητος ‎(petrokatoíkētos)
• προκᾰτοικέω ‎(prokatoikéō)
• σῠγκᾰτοικέω ‎(sunkatoikéō)
• σῠνεισκᾰτοικέω ‎(suneiskatoikéō)

Related terms

• εὐκᾰτοίκητος ‎(eukatoíkētos)
• κᾰτοίκησῐς ‎(katoíkēsis)
• κᾰτοικητήρῐον ‎(katoikētḗrion)
• κᾰτοικητήρῐος ‎(katoikētḗrios)

References

• κατοικέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κατοικέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κατοικέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2730”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979