Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ποιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποιός ποιή ποιόν

Structure: ποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a certain nature, kind or quality

Declension

First/Second declension

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.

Examples

  • ποίαν δὲ χρὴ τραπέσθαι, ὦ Φιλοσοφία; (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 24:2)
  • ποίαν λέγεισ; (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 24:11)
  • τοῦτο δέ ἐστι τὸ ποίαν τινὰ δεῖ ταύτην εἶναι παρασκευάσαι. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 9:3)
  • ποίαν ἀχώ, ποῖον ὀδυρμόν, δειλαία δειλαίου γήρωσ, δουλείασ τᾶσ οὐ τλατᾶσ, τᾶσ οὐ φερτᾶσ; (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, strophe2)
  • ποίαν ἢ ταύταν ἢ κείναν στείχω; (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, strophe7)

Synonyms

  1. of a certain nature

Similar forms

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

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