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συνοίκους (synoikous)

συνοίκους is an Ancient Greek form of συνοικέω, meaning “live together”. It is the present active participle nominative plural feminine.

It can also be a form of σύνοικος, “housemate; fellow resident”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Timoleon 23.5: οἱ δὲ συνελθόντες εἰς Κόρινθον οὐκ ὄντες ἱκανοὶ τὸ πλῆθος ἐδεήθησαν ἐκ Κορίνθου καὶ τῆς ἄλλης Ἑλλάδος παραλαβεῖν συνοίκους· καὶ γενόμενοι μυρίων οὐκ ἐλάττους κατέπλευσαν εἰς Συρακούσας.

Demosthenes, Against Onetor I 7: … μὲν ἀδελφὴν ἔδωκεν, τὴν δὲ προῖκʼ αὐτῷ Τιμοκράτης ἐπὶ πέντʼ ὀβολοῖς ὀφειλήσειν ὡμολόγησεν, ᾧ πρότερον ἡ γυνὴ συνοικοῦσʼ ἐτύγχανεν.

All forms of συνοικέω (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.