ποῖα (poia)

ποῖα is an Ancient Greek form of ποῖος, meaning “of what kind?”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 459 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.40: … ν σχολὴν καί φησιν, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Πλάτωνος ἄνθρωπος. ὅθεν τῷ ὅρῳ προσετέθη τὸ πλατυώνυχον. πρὸς τὸν πυθόμενον ποίᾳ ὥρᾳ δεῖ ἀριστᾶν, εἰ μὲν πλούσιος, ἔφη, ὅταν θέλῃ· εἰ δὲ πένης, ὅταν ἔχῃ.

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 69.65: … χήμονα πράττοντας καὶ μηδὲν αἰσχρὸν ἡγουμένους· ὅτε ἐπανῆλθεν εἰς τὴν πατρίδα, τῶν πολιτῶν πυνθανομένων αὐτοῦ ποῖά τινά ἐστι τὰ ἐν Ἀθήναις, πάντα εἶπε καλά, εἰρωνευόμενος καὶ παριστὰς ὅτι πάντα παρὰ τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις καλὰ νομίζ …

Plutarch, De exilio 16·2: … ὸ ἀγεννὲς πανταχοῦ τὴν φωνὴν ἐμφράττει, τὴν γλῶσσαν ἀποστρέφει, ἄγχει, σιωπᾶν ποιεῖ. τὰ δʼ ἑξῆς τοῦ Εὐριπίδου ποῖὰ τινʼ ἐστίν; καὶ τοῦτο τῆς ἀβελτερίας ἔγκλημα μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς φυγῆς ἐστιν. οὐ γὰρ οἱ μαθόντες οὐδʼ ἐπιστάμενοι χρ …

All forms of ποῖος (declension 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.