οἰκία
oikia
building, house, dwelling
Appears 199 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
οἰκία, Ion. οἰκίη, Cret. and Locr. ϝοικία, Leg.Gort. 5.26, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.8 (v B. C.), cf. IG 14.636 (Petelia) :—ἡ, A. building, house, dwelling, 1.17,114, etc. ; ἡ οἰκία ἡ δημοσία IG 12.94.36 ; οἰκία ἱερά ib.363.24; κατʼ οἰκίαν at home, La. 180d ; ἰδίᾳ καὶ κατʼ οἰκίας Lg. 788a ; ἔτυχεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰ. was at home, 5.4 : in Com. and Attic Prose much more freq. than οἶκος : sts. opp. οἶκος as house to set of apartments or room, τᾶν οἰκιᾶν τιμὰν κομιζέσθω τῶ οἴκω ἑκάστω δύο μνᾶς SIG 306.16 (Tegea, iv B. C.), cf. PTeb. 46.9 (cf. 18) (ii B. C.), 38.14, 15 (ii B. C.), PFay. 31.11 (ii A. D.). 2. in Att. law, οἶκος was distd. from οἰκία, the former being the property left at a personʼs death, his estate, the latter the dwelling-house only, as stated by Oec. 1.5, cf. 7.224, Gal.Fr. 12, etc. 3. distd. from συνοικία, as oneʼs own apartments from those let out to lodgers, 1.124. II. household, domestic establishment, Grg. 520e ; δὔ οἰκίας ᾤκει, i. e. he kept two establishments, 39.26, cf. Pol. 1265b26 ; more primitive than the πόλις, ib.1252b17, EN 1162a18, al. ; ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας the house-steward, PCair.Zen. 150.16 (iii B. C.). III. the household, i. e. inmates of the house, Lg. 909b (pl.). IV. house or family from which one is descended, οἰκίης ἀγαθῆς 1.107 ; οἰκίης οὐ φλαυροτέρης ib.99 ; οἰκίης οὐκ ἐπιφανέος 2.172 ; τῇ Κύρου οἰκίῃ συγγενέες 3.2, cf. Grg. 472b ; ἐκ τῶν μεγίστων οἰ. 117.5, cf. 1.126, 8.6, etc. ; περὶ ὀλίγας οἰ. αἱ . . τραγῳδίαι συντίθενται Po. 1453a19 ; ἡ Μακεδόνων οἰ. 2.37.7 ; ἡ βασιλικὴ οἰ. 18.57. V. medical school, ἐξ οἰκίας Ἡροφίλου Praef., cf. 17(2).145.
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