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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

  • κριτὴν γενόμενον λογίσασθαι περὶ τοῦ ποιητέου σοι ὑποστάντα ὀργῇ τῇ ἐμῇ, ἐπεί τοι παράδειγμα ποιοῖντό σε οἵ τε νῦν πάντεσ καὶ ὁπόσοι ὕστεροι γένοιντ’ ἄν, μηδαμῶσ ἀκυροῦν αὐτοκράτοροσ ἀνδρὸσ ἐντολάσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 359:2)

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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