Ancient Greek

Adverb

ποῖ • ‎(poî) (interrogative adverb)

1. whither? whereto? where?

Usage notes

This word can be used to introduce direct and indirect questions. ὅποι ‎(hópoi) can introduce indirect questions only.

References

• ποῖ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ποῖ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ποῖ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • destination idem, page 217.
  • direction idem, page 226.
  • whither idem, page 977.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press