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.
- σὺ ἐπίστασαι ὅτι ψευδῆ μου κατεμαρτύρησαν. καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀποθνήσκω μὴ ποιήσασα μηδὲν ὧν οὗτοι ἐπονηρεύσαντο κατ’ ἐμοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Susanna 1:43)
- αἶψα δὲ ποιήσασα γένοσ πολιοῦ ἀδάμαντοσ τεῦξε μέγα δρέπανον καὶ ἐπέφραδε παισὶ φίλοισιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 16:8)
- Μῆτισ δ’ αὖτε Ζηνὸσ ὑπὸ σπλάγχνοισ λελαθυῖα ἧστο, Ἀθηναίησ μήτηρ, τέκταινα δικαίων πλεῖστα θεῶν τε ἰδυῖα καταθνητῶν τ’ ἀνθρώπων, ἔνθα θεὰ παρέδεκτο ὅθεν παλάμαισ περὶ πάντων ἀθανάτων ἐκέκασθ’ οἳ Ὀλύμπια δώματ’ ἔχουσιν, αἰγίδα ποιήσασα φοβέστρατον ἔντοσ Ἀθήνησ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 92:8)
- "ὅθεν ἐποίησέ τε καὶ ποιήσασα περιῄει κατὰ τὴν ἐρημίαν, ὥσ φασιν, ἀναβοῶσα καὶ ᾄδουσα τὸ καλούμενον νόμιον, ἐν ᾧ ἐστιν ’ μακραὶ δρύεσ, ὦ Μέναλκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 116)
- ποιήσασα δ’ οὕτωσ ἀριθμόν, εἰσ στιγμὰσ εἶτα γραμμὰσ ἐκ δὲ τούτων εἰσ ἐπιφανείασ καὶ βάθη καὶ σώματα πρόεισι καὶ σωμάτων ποιότητασ ἐν πάθεσι γιγνομένων. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 3, section 1 10:1)
Synonyms
-
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)
