Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κου ‎(kou) Ionic
• ποι ‎(poi) Aeolic

Adverb

που • ‎(pou)

1. (enclitic) anywhere, somewhere
2. possibly, perhaps
3. about, approximately

References

• που in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «που» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• «που» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• που in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anywhere idem, page 33.
  • somewhere idem, page 793.
  • suppose idem, page 841.
  • ween idem, page 972.
  • world idem, page 989.
• 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

Greek

Conjunction

που • ‎(pou)

1. that

   χαίρομαι που σε βλέπω ξανά.

   I am glad to see you again. (...that I see you again)

Pronoun

που • ‎(pou) m ‎(relative pronoun)

1. that, who, whom, which

   ο άνθρωπος που είδα στο δρόμο ήταν ένας παλιός μου φίλος. (The man who I saw on the road was an old friend.)

2. where

   το μέρος που μεγάλωσα (the place where I grew up)

Related terms

• ποιος ‎(poios, “who”, interrogative)
• πού ‎(poú, “where”, interrogative)
• πουθενά ‎(pouthená, “nowhere, anywhere”)