Ancient Greek

Noun

ποίησις • ‎(poíēsis) f

1. poetry, poem
2. a creation

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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

  Katharevousa: ποίηση f ‎(poíisi)

• Italian: poiesi
• Latin: poesis

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, 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”)

Noun

ποίησις • ‎(poíisis) f

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