ποιοῦ (poiou)

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

It can also be a form of ποῖος, “of what kind?”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.60: … δʼ ἂν κτήσῃ μὴ ἀποδοκίμαζε. ἄρχε πρῶτον μαθὼν ἄρχεσθαι. συμβούλευε μὴ τὰ ἥδιστα, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἄριστα. νοῦν ἡγεμόνα ποιοῦ. μὴ κακοῖς ὁμίλει. θεοὺς τίμα, γονέας αἰδοῦ. φασὶ δʼ αὐτὸν καὶ Μιμνέρμου γράψαντος, αἲ γὰρ ἄτερ νούσων τε καὶ …

Euripides, Heracles 540: πῶς φῄς; τί δράσας ἢ δορὸς ποίου τυχών;

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.