ποιέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ποιέω
ποιήσω
ἐποίησα
πεποίηκα
πεποίημαι
ἐποιήθην
Structure:
ποιέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: Att. Poets often use the penult. short, as poiw=, poiei=n, etc., which are often written pow=, poei=n, etc., as in Lat. poeta, poesis.
Sense
- I make
- I create
- I produce
- I postulate, imply
- I solve
- I do, act
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- Ἑλικῶνα μὲν γάρ, ἵνα διατρίβειν αἱ θεαὶ λέγονται, οὐδὲ ἀκήκοασ οἶμαί ποτε, οὐδὲ τὰσ αὐτὰσ ^ διατριβὰσ ἡμῖν ἐν παισὶν ἐποιοῦ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 3:4)
- καίτοι εἰ μὲν εἰσ πίστιν ἔδωκασ, τί πρὸ τοῦ κακουργήματοσ ἂν τὰ βέβαι’ ἐποιοῦ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 23:3)
- ἡνίκα μὲν γὰρ πολλοὶ ἔνδον ἦμεν καὶ σὺ τὴν ἐπίδειξιν ἐποιοῦ, ἀπελείφθην σου τῶν λεγομένων ‐ ὤκνουν γὰρ ἐπανερέσθαι, διότι ὄχλοσ τε πολὺσ ἔνδον ἦν, καὶ μή σοι ἐμποδὼν εἰήν ἐρωτῶν τῇ ἐπιδείξει ‐ νυνὶ δὲ ἐπειδὴ ἐλάττουσ τέ ἐσμεν καὶ Εὔδικοσ ὅδε κελεύει ἐρέσθαι, εἰπέ τε καὶ δίδαξον ἡμᾶσ σαφῶσ, τί ἔλεγεσ περὶ τούτοιν τοῖν ἀνδροῖν; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 8:4)
- ἐπεὶ δὲ πάντεσ συνεκαθεζόμεθα, ὁ Πρωταγόρασ, νῦν δὴ ἄν, ἔφη, λέγοισ, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, ἐπειδὴ καὶ οἵδε πάρεισιν, περὶ ὧν ὀλίγον πρότερον μνείαν ἐποιοῦ πρὸσ ἐμὲ ὑπὲρ τοῦ νεανίσκου. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 73:1)
- καὶ τούτου τεκμήριον, ὅτι καὶ Θρᾷκασ καὶ Σκύθασ καὶ Σαυρομάτασ, οὔπω τινὶ πολεμῶν, ἐσ συμμαχίαν ὑπήγου, καὶ ἐσ τοὺσ ἀγχοῦ βασιλέασ περιέπεμπεσ, ναῦσ τε ἐποιοῦ, καὶ πρῳρέασ καὶ κυβερνήτασ συνεκάλεισ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 6:14)
Synonyms
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I make
-
I create
-
I produce
-
I solve
-
I do
Derived
- εἰσποιέω (to give in adoption, to make, son)
- ἐκποιέω (to put out, to put out, give him in adoption)
- μεταποιέω (to alter the make of, remodel, alter)
- παραποιέω (to make falsely, having got a false, made)
- περιποιέω (to make to remain over and above, to keep safe, preserve)
- προποιέω (to do before or beforehand, to make the first move, to prepare beforehand)
- προσποιέω (to make over to, to attach to oneself, win)
- ὑποποιέω (to put under, to subject to oneself, to produce gradually)
