ποῖος
See also: ποιος and ποιός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κοῖος (koîos) – Ionic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷos + -ῐος (-ios, adjective suffix). Compare the indefinite form ποιός (poiós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pôi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpy.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpy.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpy.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.os/
Adjective
ποῖος • (poîos) m (feminine ποίᾱ, neuter ποῖον); first/second declension
- (interrogative adjective) of what kind?, of what nature?, which?, what?
Declension
First and second declension of ποῖος; ποίᾱ; ποῖον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ποῖος poîos | ποίᾱ poíā | ποῖον poîon | ποίω poíō | ποίᾱ poíā | ποίω poíō | ποῖοι poîoi | ποῖαι poîai | ποῖᾰ poîa | |||||
Genitive | ποίου poíou | ποίᾱς poíās | ποίου poíou | ποίοιν poíoin | ποίαιν poíain | ποίοιν poíoin | ποίων poíōn | ποίων poíōn | ποίων poíōn | |||||
Dative | ποίῳ poíōi | ποίᾳ poíāi | ποίῳ poíōi | ποίοιν poíoin | ποίαιν poíain | ποίοιν poíoin | ποίοις poíois | ποίαις poíais | ποίοις poíois | |||||
Accusative | ποῖον poîon | ποίᾱν poíān | ποῖον poîon | ποίω poíō | ποίᾱ poíā | ποίω poíō | ποίους poíous | ποίᾱς poíās | ποῖᾰ poîa | |||||
Vocative | ποῖε poîe | ποίᾱ poíā | ποῖον poîon | ποίω poíō | ποίᾱ poíā | ποίω poíō | ποῖοι poîoi | ποῖαι poîai | ποῖᾰ poîa | |||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ποιος (poios)
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
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basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | ὁπότερος | ||||||
quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος | |
quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | |||
manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως | |
method, path, place | πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | ἄλλῃ | |
place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι | |
source | πόθεν | ποθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε | |
exact time | πηνίκα | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |||
duration of time | τέως | ἕως | |||||||
size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | ||
repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | ||||
multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | |||||||
order | πόστος | ποστός | ὁπόστος | ||||||
† Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. |
References
- “ποῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ποῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ποῖος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ποῖος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ποῖος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4169 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- character idem, page 125.
- kind idem, page 469.
- nature idem, page 552.
- quality idem, page 663.
- sort idem, page 795.
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN