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- noun See
ecumene .
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- noun Archaic spelling of
ecumene .
Etymologies
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From Latin oecumenicus, from Ancient Greek: οἰκουμένη (oikoumenē, "inhabited world"), from οἰκέω (oikeō, "I inhabit, dwell"), from οἶκος (oikos, "house").
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