ἄποικος

From ἀπο- (apo-, “away from”) +‎ οἶκος (oîkos, “home”).

ᾰ̓́ποικος • (ắpoikos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́ποικον); second declension (rare)

1. away from home, abroad (sometimes followed by genitive)
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1518

ᾰ̓́ποικος • (ắpoikos) m (genitive ᾰ̓ποίκου); second declension (Attic, Ionic)

1. settler, colonist
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.97:

     [Ἀρισταγόρης ἔλεγε] τάδε, ὡς οἱ Μιλήσιοι τῶν Ἀθηναίων εἰσὶ ἄποικοι

     [Aristagórēs élege] táde, hōs hoi Milḗsioi tôn Athēnaíōn eisì ápoikoi

     [Aristagoras said] the following, that the Milesians were colonists from the Athenians

   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.25:

     ὅτι αὐτῶν παρημέλουν [οἱ Κερκυραῖοι] ὄντες ἄποικοι

     hóti autôn parēméloun [hoi Kerkuraîoi] óntes ápoikoi

     because [the Corcyreans], though they were [their] colonists, disregarded them [= the Corinthians]

   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.38:

     ἄποικοι δ’ ὄντες ἀφεστᾶσί τε διὰ παντὸς καὶ νῦν πολεμοῦσι

     ápoikoi d’ óntes aphestâsí te dià pantòs kaì nûn polemoûsi

     the colonists [= the Corcyreans] have always been aloof and now are hostile

   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.57.2:

     καὶ ἔτι Ἑστιαιῆς οἱ ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ Ἑστίαιαν οἰκοῦντες ἄποικοι ὄντες ξυνεστράτευσαν.

     kaì éti Hestiaiês hoi en Euboíāi Hestíaian oikoûntes ápoikoi óntes xunestráteusan.

     and further the Hestiaeans who inhabited Hestiaea in Eubeoa, being their colonists, fought with them

2. colony
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.3.2:

     καὶ ἀφικνοῦνται πορευόμενοι εἰς Κερασοῦντα τριταῖοι πόλιν Ἑλληνίδα ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ Σινωπέων ἄποικον ἐν τῇ Κολχίδι χώρᾳ.

     kaì aphiknoûntai poreuómenoi eis Kerasoûnta tritaîoi pólin Hellēnída epì thaláttēi Sinōpéōn ápoikon en tēî Kolkhídi khṓrāi.

     and they travelled and on the third day arrived in Kerasun [= Giresun], a Greek town on the sea, a colony of the Sinopeans, in the Colchian country.

   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.2.1:

     ἀφίκοντο εἰς Ἡράκλειαν πόλιν Ἑλληνίδα Μεγαρέων ἄποικον

     aphíkonto eis Hērákleian pólin Hellēnída Megaréōn ápoikon

     they arrived in Heraclea, a Greek city, a colony of the Megarians

• “ἄποικος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press