πόα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ποίη (poíē) — Ionic, Epic
• ποίᾱ (poíā) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *póiwā, from Proto-Indo-European *póyH-weh₂, from *peyH-. Cognate with Lithuanian pieva (“meadow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.a/ → /ˈpo.a/ → /ˈpo.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pó.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.a/

Noun

πόᾰ • (póa) f (genitive ποᾱς); first declension

1. grass, hay
2. (broadly) herbs, plants

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πόᾰ; τῆς πόᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πόᾰ hē póa	τὼ πόᾱ tṑ póā	αἱ πόαι hai póai
Genitive	τῆς πόᾱς tês póās	τοῖν πόαιν toîn póain	τῶν ποῶν tôn poôn
Dative	τῇ πόᾳ têi póāi	τοῖν πόαιν toîn póain	ταῖς πόαις taîs póais
Accusative	τὴν πόᾰν tḕn póan	τὼ πόᾱ tṑ póā	τᾱ̀ς πόᾱς tā̀s póās
Vocative	πόᾰ póa	πόᾱ póā	πόαι póai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: hermūpoa
• Translingual: Poa

Further reading

• “πόα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πόα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • grass idem, page 370.
  • green idem, page 372.
  • hay idem, page 389.
  • lawn idem, page 480.
  • sod idem, page 791.
  • sward idem, page 846.
  • turf idem, page 901.
  • verdure idem, page 948.
• πόα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette