oikist

plural oikists

1. alternativeAlternative form of oecist.

   It would not, in fact, be surprising to learn that Thera had called on Sparta, her mother city, to provide an oikist for her colony of Cyrene, in the same way as Corcyra called on Corinth to provide an oikist for Epidamnus.

   2004, Anthony Francis Natoli, Speusippus, Speusippos, The Letter of Speusippus to Philip II: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary ; with an Appendix on the Thirty-first Socratic Letter Attributed to Plato, Franz Steiner Verlag, page 88