œkist

English

Noun

œkist (plural œkists)

  1. Alternative form of oecist
    • 1869, George Grote, History of Greece, page 404:
      Especially it is to be noticed, that the œkist was a Corinthian and a Herakleid, Phalius the son of Eratokleidés—for according to the usual practice of Greece, whenever a city, itself a colony, founded a subcolony, the œkist of the latter was […]

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