ποιούμεθα (poioumetha)

ποιούμεθα is an Ancient Greek form of ποιέω, meaning “to make, do, create”.

It can also be a form of ποιόω, “make of a certain quality”. It is the 1st person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.87.1: οὕτω πολλὴν περιωπὴν τῶν ἡμῖν ἐς τὰ μέγιστα διαφόρων ποιούμεθα, καὶ οὐκ ἂν μείζω πρὸς τοῖς ὅρκοις βεβαίωσιν λάβοιτε ἢ οἷς τὰ ἔργα ἐκ τῶν λόγων ἀναθρούμενα δόκησιν ἀναγκαίαν παρέχεται ὡς καὶ ξυμφέρει ὁμοίως ὡς εἶπον.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 19.10.3: ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐ τοῖς λόγοις τιμωρεῖσθαι τοὺς ἐχθροὺς εἰώθαμεν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἔργοις, καὶ οὔτε δικαστὴν ποιούμεθά σε περὶ ὧν Ταραντίνοις ἢ Σαυνίταις ἢ τοῖς ἄλλοις πολεμίοις ἐγκαλοῦμεν οὔτʼ ἐγγυητὴν λαμβάνομεν ἐκτίσματος οὐδ …

All forms of ποιέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.