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œkist

œkist is the alternative form of oecist.

Meaning of oecist

Noun

oecist (plural oecists)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A founder of a colony.
    • Euarchos of Katane has no patronymic or pedigree, nor, though oecist of a secondary colony, is he associated with an oecist from the original metropolis, Chalkis.1970, Molly Miller, The Sicilian Colony Dates, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 46

Forms of œkist

pluralœkists

Questions about œkist

What is œkist the alternative form of?
Œkist is the alternative form of oecist.

Words near œkist in the dictionary

  1. œil-de-perdrix
  2. œillade
  3. œillades
  4. œils-de-bœuf
  5. œils-de-perdrix
  6. œkist
  7. Œnanthe
  8. œnanthic
  9. Œneus
  10. Œniadæ
  11. œno-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: œkist (page history and authors); oecist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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