Standard_Etymology_poieo



Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by:
Sir Henry Stuart Jones; with the assistance of: Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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ποιέω ~~ ['ποi ~ έω' ~=>~ 'poi ~ eo']
I. Used in two general senses, to make and to do.
A. to make, produce, create, in Hom. often of building, π. δῶμα,
-.. τεῖχος
, etc.; of smith's work, π. σάκος Il.; of works of art, id=Il.,
.... etc.; ποιεῖν τι ἀπὸ ξύλου to make something of wood, Hdt.;
.... φοίνικος αἱ θύραι πεποιημέναι Xen.:—Mid., οἰκία ποιήσασθαι
.... to build them houses, Il.; also, to have a thing made, get it made,
.... Hdt., Dem. ~~~~~~ <= BACK
3. of Poets, to compose, write, (old English to make), Lat. carmina
.... facere
, Hdt., attic: also, to make or represent in poetry, Ὅμηρος
.... Ἀχιλλέα πεποίηκε ἀμείνω Ὀδυσσέως
Plat.: to describe in verse,
.... id=Plat.: to put into verse, id=Plat. ~ [See: 'poem' => Gr.: poesis]
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II. to bring to pass, bring about, cause, Hom., etc.: c. acc. et inf.
.... to cause or bring about that . . , Od., etc.
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