Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οἰκίη ‎(oikíē) (Ionic)
• ϝοικία ‎(woikía) (Cretan, Locrian)
• ϝυκία ‎(wukía) (Boeotian)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ykía/

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

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

Noun

οἰκίᾱ • ‎(oikíā) f ‎(genitive οἰκίας); first declension

1. house, dwelling, lair
2. household, domestic affairs
3. household, family
4. house, extended family, tribe

Usage notes

In Attic law, οἶκος ‎(oîkos, “house”) was all the property left by a person, while οἰκία was the house on that property.

Inflection

References

• οἰκία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οἰκία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «οἰκία» 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
• “G3614”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abode idem, page 2.
  • domicile idem, page 247.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • habitation idem, page 380.
  • home idem, page 403.
  • house idem, page 408.
  • household idem, page 408.
  • residence idem, page 701.