Ancient Greek

Noun

κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱ • ‎(katoikíā) f ‎(genitive κᾰτοικῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. habitation
   • Hecat. 119.J.
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.78.5
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.4.8
   1. farm, village
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.32.4
   2. (generally) dwelling-place, domicile
      • Act.Ap. 17.26
      • Chr. 31.i.23
2. settlement, colony
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.4.11
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 47
   1. (and especially) military colonies (in Egypt)
      • PTeb. 61.b.227
   2. = the Latin colōnia
      • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 6.2.5
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Mark Antony 16
      • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 5.19
3. body of residents in a foreign city
   • IG, Rom. 4.834

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: κατοικία ‎(katoikía)

References

• κατοικία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κατοικία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κατοικία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2733”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κατοικία ‎(katoikía).

Noun

κατοικία • ‎(katoikía) f ‎(plural κατοικίες)

1. habitation
2. residence, home
3. house, dwelling
4. domicile

Declension

Related terms

• κατοικώ ‎(katoikó, “to live at, to reside”)
• κάτοικος m f ‎(kátoikos, “inhabitant”)

Synonyms

• see: σπίτι n ‎(spíti, “house, home”)