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oikist

oikist 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 oikist

pluraloikists

Questions about oikist

What is oikist the alternative form of?
Oikist is the alternative form of oecist.

Words near oikist in the dictionary

  1. OIGs
  2. oik
  3. oikball
  4. oikeiosis
  5. oikish
  6. oikist
  7. oikists
  8. oikoclitic
  9. oikocryst
  10. oikocrysts
  11. oikoi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oikist (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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