οἰκιστής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

οἶκος (oîkos) +‎ -ιστής (-istḗs)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oi̯.kis.tɛ̌ːs/ → /y.cisˈtis/ → /i.cisˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oi̯.kis.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /y.kisˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.cisˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.cisˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.cisˈtis/

Noun

οἰκιστής • (oikistḗs) m (genitive οἰκιστοῦ); first declension

1. founder of a colony, colonizer, settler

Declension

First declension of ὁ οἰκιστής; τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ οἰκιστής ho oikistḗs	τὼ οἰκιστᾱ́ tṑ oikistā́	οἱ οἰκισταί hoi oikistaí
Genitive	τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ toû oikistoû	τοῖν οἰκισταῖν toîn oikistaîn	τῶν οἰκιστῶν tôn oikistôn
Dative	τῷ οἰκιστῇ tôi oikistêi	τοῖν οἰκισταῖν toîn oikistaîn	τοῖς οἰκισταῖς toîs oikistaîs
Accusative	τὸν οἰκιστήν tòn oikistḗn	τὼ οἰκιστᾱ́ tṑ oikistā́	τοὺς οἰκιστᾱ́ς toùs oikistā́s
Vocative	οἰκιστᾰ́ oikistá	οἰκιστᾱ́ oikistā́	οἰκισταί oikistaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• οἰκίζω (oikízō)

Descendants

• → English: oecist

Further reading

• οἰκιστής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “οἰκιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • coloniser idem, page 143.
  • founder idem, page 341.
  • settler idem, page 758.