Ποίας

See also: ποιας, ποιάς, ποιᾶς, and ποίας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Likely from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, create, compose”) +‎ -ᾱς (-ās).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pǒi̯.aːs/ → /ˈpy.as/ → /ˈpi.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pǒi̯.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.as/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.as/

Proper noun

Ποίᾱς • (Poíās) m (genitive Ποίᾰντος); third declension

1. a male given name, Poeas

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Ποίᾱς; τοῦ Ποίᾰντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ποίᾱς ho Poíās
Genitive	τοῦ Ποίᾰντος toû Poíăntos
Dative	τῷ Ποίᾰντῐ tōî Poíăntĭ
Accusative	τὸν Ποίᾰντᾰ tòn Poíăntă
Vocative	Ποῖᾰν Poîăn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ποίας (Poías)
• Latin: Poeas

References

• “Ποίας”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022