ποίημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the verb ποιέω (poiéō, “make, create”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pǒi̯.ɛː.ma/ → /ˈpy.i.ma/ → /ˈpi.i.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pǒi̯.ɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.e̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.i.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.i.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.i.ma/

Noun

ποίημᾰ • (poíēmă) n (genitive ποιήμᾰτος); third declension

1. a work, creation
2. a poem
3. a deed, action

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ποίημᾰ; τοῦ ποιήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ποίημᾰ tò poíēmă	τὼ ποιήμᾰτε tṑ poiḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ποιήμᾰτᾰ tằ poiḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ ποιήμᾰτος toû poiḗmătos	τοῖν ποιημᾰ́τοιν toîn poiēmắtoin	τῶν ποιημᾰ́των tôn poiēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ ποιήμᾰτῐ tōî poiḗmătĭ	τοῖν ποιημᾰ́τοιν toîn poiēmắtoin	τοῖς ποιήμᾰσῐ / ποιήμᾰσῐν toîs poiḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ποίημᾰ tò poíēmă	τὼ ποιήμᾰτε tṑ poiḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ποιήμᾰτᾰ tằ poiḗmătă
Vocative	ποίημᾰ poíēmă	ποιήμᾰτε poiḗmăte	ποιήμᾰτᾰ poiḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ποιημάτιον (poiēmátion)
• ποίησις (poíēsis)
• ποιητής (poiētḗs)
• ποιήτρια (poiḗtria)
• ποιητικός (poiētikós)

Descendants

• → Latin: poēma (see there for further descendants)
• Russian: поэ́ма (poéma)

References

• “ποίημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ποίημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ποίημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4161 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lay idem, page 480.
  • poem idem, page 623.
• ποίημα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.i.ma/

Noun

ποίημα • (poíima) n (plural ποιήματα)

1. poem, piece of verse

Declension

Declension of ποίημα

	singular	plural
nominative	ποίημα (poíima)	ποιήματα (poiímata)
genitive	ποιήματος (poiímatos)	ποιημάτων (poiimáton)
accusative	ποίημα (poíima)	ποιήματα (poiímata)
vocative	ποίημα (poíima)	ποιήματα (poiímata)

Derived terms

• (diminutive) ποιηματάκι n (poiimatáki)

Related terms

• see: ποίηση f (poíisi, “poetry”)

Further reading

• Ποίηση on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• ποίημα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language