οἰκουμένην (oikoumenen)

οἰκουμένην is an Ancient Greek form of οἰκέω, meaning “to dwell, inhabit; manage”.

It can also be a form of οἰκουμένη, “the inhabited world”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 197 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 30.2: … ἀσκητοῦ καὶ σοφοῦ βίον ἔχουσα, μᾶλλον δʼ, ὥσπερ οἱ ποιηταὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα μυθολογοῦσι δέρμα καὶ ξύλον ἔχοντα τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐπιπορεύεσθαι, κολάζοντα τοὺς παρανόμους καὶ θηριώδεις τυράννους, οὕτως ἡ πόλις ἀπὸ σκυτάλης μιᾶς καὶ τρίβωνο …

All forms of οἰκέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.