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σύνοικος , ον, Delph. σύνϝοικος (v. infr. 1 c),
A.dwelling in the same house with, “τῷ γυναικείῳ γένει” A.Th.188, cf. Ch.1005; ξ. εἴσειμ' enter the house as an inmate, S.El.818; of animals, Plu.2.974d, Hdn.1.12.2.
b. of persons living in the same city or country, fellow-inhabitant (prop. of those who join in colonizing a place, opp. ἔποικοι, Arist.Pol.1303a28), ς. ἐγένοντο Ἀθηναίοισι (sc. οἱ Πελασγοί) Hdt.1.57, cf. 2.51, 7.73; “ξ. ἐπαγαγέσθαι τινάς” Th.2.68; ξ. δέξασθαι or προσδέξασθαι, Ar.Pl.1147, Pl.Lg.708a; “ς. ἔχειν ἐν τῇ πόλει” Isoc.12.178; “ς. ἡμῖν ἐν τῇ πόλει” Pl.Lg.920a; “ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ς. ὑμῶν γίγνεται” Lycurg.145; of gods worshipped in the country, “τὸν θεὸν βαρὺν ξ. θησόμεσθα” A.Supp.415, cf. Isoc.10.62; “ἡ ς. τῶν κάτω θεῶν Δίκη” S. Ant.451.
c. = μέτοικος or πάροικος, SIG480.2 (Delph., iii B.C.): in form σύνϝοικος, Schwyzer 324.12 (Delph., iv. B.C.).
2. metaph., associated with, wedded to, tied to, of persons, τίς ἄταις ἀγρίαις, τίς ἐν πόνοις ξ.; S.OT1206 (lyr.); ς. ἐνδείᾳ, κακῷ, Pl.Smp.203d, R. 367a.
b. of things, associated with, “ὁ δυσφιλεῖ σκότῳ λιμὸς ξύνοικος” A.Ag.1642; ᾧ τίς οὐκ ἔνι κηλὶς κακῶν ξ.; S.OC1134; “ὑμῖν τὰς μεγίττας ἡδονὰς ς. εἶναι” Pl.Phlb.63d; “ὁ ἀεὶ ς. ἐμοὶ ἔρως” X.Smp.8.24; “τοῦ [τῇ καρδίᾳ] συνοίκου αἵματος” Diocl.Fr.44.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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