ποίησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ποιέω (poiéō, “I make”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

ποίησις • (poíēsis) f (genitive ποιήσεως); third declension

1. poetry, poem
2. a creation, fabrication, production

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ποίησῐς; τῆς ποιήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ποίησῐς hē poíēsis	τὼ ποιήσει tṑ poiḗsei	αἱ ποιήσεις hai poiḗseis
Genitive	τῆς ποιήσεως tês poiḗseōs	τοῖν ποιησέοιν toîn poiēséoin	τῶν ποιήσεων tôn poiḗseōn
Dative	τῇ ποιήσει têi poiḗsei	τοῖν ποιησέοιν toîn poiēséoin	ταῖς ποιήσεσῐ / ποιήσεσῐν taîs poiḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ποίησῐν tḕn poíēsin	τὼ ποιήσει tṑ poiḗsei	τᾱ̀ς ποιήσεις tā̀s poiḗseis
Vocative	ποίησῐ poíēsi	ποιήσει poiḗsei	ποιήσεις poiḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: poiesis, -poiesis
• Greek: ποίηση f (poíisi)

  Katharevousa: ποίησις f (poíisis)

• → Italian: poiesi
• → Latin: poesis, poesia
  • Old French: poesie
    • Middle French: poesie
      • French: poésie
        • → Danish: poesi
        • → Dutch: poëzie
          • Afrikaans: poësie
          • → Indonesian: puisi
          • → Malay: puisi
        • → German: Poesie
        • → Russian: поэ́зия (poézija)
          • → Kazakh: поэзия (poéziä)
      • → English: poesy

Further reading

• “ποίησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ποίησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ποίησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4162 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.
  • adoption idem, page 13.
  • composition idem, page 153.
  • construction idem, page 165.
  • lay idem, page 480.
  • making idem, page 509.
  • manufacture idem, page 513.
  • poem idem, page 623.
  • poetry idem, page 623.
  • production idem, page 645.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis), ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.i.sis/
• Hyphenation: ποί‧η‧σις

Noun

ποίησις • (poíisis) f

1. Katharevousa form of ποίηση (poíisi), poetry, verse
2. (Katharevousa) fabrication, creation, production
3. (Katharevousa) magical procedure