Oikos

His ugly word for love of the home, "oikophilia" - from the Greek word "oikos" - means the same as "eco-philia". ❋ Louise Gray (2012)

Ecology and economy are both derived from the Greek word oikos - a house or dwelling. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That is the problem with Business School economists who really should be called "busi-nomists" rather than eco-nomists because by definition and by design they are not concerned with eco, a Greek word oikos, meaning "house". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Like the terms ecology and ecumenism, the word economy has the root oikos, which is a Greek word that translates as family or house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The oikos is a somewhat longer troparion, which in concise style glorifies the virtues and merits of the subject of the feast. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Arthur Tansley, originator of the ecosystem concept, introduced the term ecotope in 1939, to give a more spatially-explicit defintion to the ecosystem concept by joining the term eco - (from the Greek "oikos" ; house, household) with - tope (Greek topos; place, locality). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The word ecocide comes from Greek as well, 'oikos', meaning 'house', and 'cidium', meaning to 'slay' or 'destroy'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'oikos' and 'nomos', which mean 'house' and 'law' respectively. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She wove our clothes, played knucklebones, snakes & ladders, lined up with other women at the well, walked home balancing the vase on her head as she balanced our family, the oikos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apparently the Greeks didn't invent economics (despite being derived from the Greek words oikos and nomos), because these days, Greece is also known as the birthplace of the sovereign debt crisis. ❋ Ken Farsalas (2010)

Ecology, from the Greek oikos, for house or dwelling, and logia, for the study of, draws attention to the relationships between living things and their environment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The global financial industry and agribusiness industries are both engaged in practices that threaten the oikos -- the ancient Greek word for "home" that forms the prefix for both economics and ecology. ❋ Mia MacDonald (2010)

The household, the structure/institution associated with women in the private sphere, can be a site for the convergence of feminism and ecology partly because of the derivation of the latter term from oikos (household) and partly because feminism often parallels the patriarchal domination of women with the domination of nature (Utopian Bodies 56, 18). close window ❋ Unknown (2008)

In [ancient Greece] oikos was [extremely] [important]. ❋ Forbes Fisher (2004)

No one gets to fuck with old J’s yogurt and have the audacity to live about it without consequence [Oikos yogurt] is famous ONLY because [junior the egomaniac] consumes it on the daily [Junior The Forbidden One] Is the ONLY ONE “able” to consume [oikos yogurt] as it’s his trademark snack Oikos yogurt is allowed to be as popular as it is due to junior’s influence and power of all natural and unnatural things ❋ Postage It (2022)

You're [playing] at vc oikos. You're playing at the best volleybalclub in [the west] of [Europe]!! ❋ Jules (2003)

❋ Nar. (2003)