ποιοῦσα (poiousa)

ποιοῦσα is an Ancient Greek form of ποιέω, meaning “to make, do, create”. It is the present active participle nominative singular feminine.

It can also be a form of ποιόω, “make of a certain quality”.

Found 144 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.7.97: … ν ἐπίκλην Ἄθεον ἐπήλεγξε, σόφισμα προτείνασα τοιοῦτον· ὃ ποιῶν Θεόδωρος οὐκ ἂν ἀδικεῖν λέγοιτο, οὐδʼ Ἱππαρχία ποιοῦσα τοῦτο ἀδικεῖν λέγοιτʼ ἄν· Θεόδωρος δὲ τύπτων ἑαυτὸν οὐκ ἀδικεῖ, οὐδʼ ἄρα Ἱππαρχία Θεόδωρον τύπτουσα ἀδικεῖ. ὁ …

Euclid, Elementa 10.prop3.95: ἐὰν χωρίον περιέχηται ὑπὸ ῥητῆς καὶ ἀποτομῆς πέμπτης, ἡ τὸ χωρίον δυναμένη ἡ μετὰ ῥητοῦ μέσον τὸ ὅλον ποιοῦσά ἐστιν. χωρίον γὰρ τὸ ΑΒ περιεχέσθω ὑπὸ ῥητῆς τῆς ΑΓ καὶ ἀποτομῆς πέμπτης τῆς ΑΔ· λέγω, ὅτι ἡ τὸ ΑΒ χωρίον δυν …

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.