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ποιοῦσαν (poiousan)

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

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

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.93: τὴν δὲ δικαιοσύνην * * τὴν δὲ μεγαλοψυχίαν ἐπιστήμην ἢ ἕξιν ὑπεράνω ποιοῦσαν τῶν συμβαινόντων κοινῇ φαύλων τε καὶ σπουδαίων· τὴν δʼ ἐγκράτειαν διάθεσιν ἀνυπέρβατον τῶν κατʼ ὀρθὸν λόγον ἢ …

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.