Oikos is word of greek origin and which can be translated into Portuguese as "House", "inhabited environment" or "family".
In ancient Greece, the oikos was the name given to the basic unit of a society, formed by the head, represented by the older man, his family (children and wife) and his slaves, who lived in the same domestic environment.
O oikos of Ancient Greece was similar to medieval manors, large country estates or houses dominated by a lord, which housed subjects and a free local population that obeyed the orders of the lord of the oikos, but that they had the freedom to leave the place whenever they wanted.
The economy of oikos it was essentially rural, with the source of survival coming from agriculture and livestock.
At this time, the presence of the demiurges, who were travelers who walked from oikos in oikos performing some specialized tasks, such as witchcraft, divination, witchcraft and so on.
The term oikos it is also used as a prefix that gives the etymological origin of the word ecology (Ökologie), on what oikos means "home" and logos what to say "study".
In other words, ecology means “the study of the house” or “the study of the inhabited environment”, in general terms it would be the study of the place where one lives.
Learn more about the meaning of ecology.