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ποιητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποιητέος ποιητέᾱ ποιητέον

Structure: ποιητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from poi/hsis

Sense

  1. to be made or done, what must be done

Examples

  • αὐτὸσ γὰρ εἴσομαι τί ποιητέον καὶ ἐξευρήσω τὴν ἱκανὴν σκοπήν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 3:5)
  • οὐδ̓ εἰ τὰ ὑπὸ τοῖσ μετώποισ ἰνώδη ἔχοιεν, οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἐν μεγάλῳ ποιητέον. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 4 4:3)
  • καὶ τοῦτο τεκμήριον ποιητέον ὅτι ἐκράτησεν ἡ κύων τοῦ λαγώ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 16 3:2)
  • ἁλόντοσ δὲ ἐφομαρτείτω τισ σπουδῇ, πρὶν ἐμφορηθῆναι τοῦ αἵματοσ τὴν κύνα, οὐχ ὅτι δὴ τὰ κρέα ἄρα περὶ πολλοῦ ποιητέον ἀνδρὶ ἐσ κάλλοσ κυνηγετοῦντι, ἀλλ̓ ὅτι πονηρὸν μάθημα κυνὶ γενναίᾳ, λαγὼ ἐσθίειν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 25 9:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο ποιητέον ἐν μικραῖσ οἰκονομίαισ ὀλιγάκισ, ἐν δ’ ἐπιτροπευομέναισ πολλάκισ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 38:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be made or done

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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