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.
- αἰσχροκερδία μέν, καθ’ ἣν κερδαίνειν ζητοῦσι πανταχόθεν, καὶ τὸ κέρδοσ τῆσ αἰσχύνησ περὶ πλείονοσ ποιοῦνται· (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 39:3)
- ἀδίκουσ οἱ συκοφάνται μου ποιοῦνται τὰσ διώξεισ· (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 61:1)
- συλλέγουσι δὲ ἄρα τὰ ᾠὰ καὶ ἐσπουδάκασι περὶ αὐτὰ οἱ περίοικοι, οὐχ ὡσ φαγεῖν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ σκεύεσι χρῶνται κενώσαντεσ καὶ ἐκπώματα ποιοῦνται ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν· (Lucian, Dipsades 11:1)
- ὡσ γοῦν ἐπὶ πολὺ τὰ προσόντα τῷ διαβαλλομένῳ πρὸσ τὸ χεῖρον μεταβάλλοντεσ οὐκ ἀπιθάνουσ ποιοῦνται τὰσ κατηγορίασ, οἱο͂ν τὸν μὲν ἰατρὸν διαβάλλουσιν ὡσ φαρμακέα, τὸν πλούσιον δὲ ὡσ τύραννον, τὸν τυραννικὸν δὲ ὡσ προδοτικόν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 13:2)
- πάντεσ δὲ τὰσ πίστεισ ποιοῦνται διὰ τοῦ δεικνύναι ὁτιοῦν, δῆλον δ’ ἡμῖν τοῦτο ἐκ τῶν ἀναλυτικῶν, ἀναγκαῖον ἑκάτερον αὐτῶν ἑκατέρῳ τούτων τὸ αὐτὸ εἶναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 7 1:3)
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)
