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ποιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποιός ποιή ποιόν

Structure: ποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

of a certain nature, kind or quality

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ποιός	ποιᾱ́	ποιόν
	Genitive	ποιοῦ	ποιᾶς	ποιοῦ
	Dative	ποιῷ	ποιᾷ	ποιῷ
	Accusative	ποιόν	ποιᾱ́ν	ποιόν
	Vocative	ποιέ	ποιᾱ́	ποιόν
Dual	N/A/V	ποιώ	ποιᾱ́	ποιώ
Dual	G/D	ποιοῖν	ποιαῖν	ποιοῖν
Plural	Nominative	ποιοί	ποιαί	ποιά
	Genitive	ποιῶν	ποιῶν	ποιῶν
	Dative	ποιοῖς	ποιαῖς	ποιοῖς
	Accusative	ποιούς	ποιᾱ́ς	ποιά
	Vocative	ποιοί	ποιαί	ποιά

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ποιός ποιοῦ	ποιώτερος ποιωτεροῦ	ποιώτατος ποιωτατοῦ
Adverb	ποιώς	ποιώτερον	ποιώτατα

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

πλὴν τὸ νῦν ὁρώμενον τοῦτο ἀλεκτρυόνα ὀνομάζων ἄμεινον ἂν ποιοῖσ, ὡσ μὴ ἀτιμάζοισ εὐτελὲσ εἶναι δοκοῦν τὸ ὄρνεον, καὶ ταῦτα τοσαύτασ ἐν αὑτῷ ψυχὰσ ἔχον. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 20:10)
χοὔτω μὲν ἂν εὖ ποιοῖσ, εἴ σοι πυκνότησ ἔνεστ’ ἐν τῷ τρόπῳ, ὡσ λέγεισ, τούτῳ πάνυ πολλή, εἰ τούσδ’ ἐπίτηδεσ ὥσπερ δημοσίουσ τρέφεισ ἐν τῇ πυκνί, κᾆθ’ ὅταν μή σοι τύχῃ ὄψον ὄν, τούτων ὃσ ἂν ᾖ παχύσ, θύσασ ἐπιδειπνεῖσ. (Aristotle, Choral, antistrophe 11)
"οὐ μόνον δὲ μετὰ τῶν προκεκοφότων ἐπὶ ποσὸν καὶ ἐν ἀγωγαῖσ καὶ ἐν ἔθεσι ποιοῖσ γεγονότων, οἱο͂ν παρὰ Λεύκωνι καὶ Ἰδανθύρσῳ. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 20 9:1)
οἶμαι ἂν ὡσ ἐγὼ λέγω ποιοῖσ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 728:1)
ἦ καὶ σύ, ὦ Μελησία, οὕτωσ ἂν ποιοῖσ; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 38:5)
καί τοι λογισώμεθα. εἰ δειλόψυχοί τινεσ ἦσαν καὶ ἄνανδροι ἐν αὐτοῖσ, ποίοισ ἂν ἐχρήσαντο λόγοισ̣ οὐχὶ τούτοισ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 8:16)
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ, ποίοισ δ’ οἴκτοισ τὰν σὰν λύμαν ἐξαιάζεισ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 21)
ἢ ποίοισ τόποισ; (Euripides, episode 4:15)
ἐν ποίοισ τόποισ; (Euripides, episode, lyric 1:28)

Synonyms

of a certain nature
- κακοφυής (of bad natural qualities)

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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ποιός

Sense

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of a certain nature

Similar forms

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