Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ποητής ‎(poētḗs) Delphic

Noun

ποιητής • ‎(poiētḗs) m ‎(genitive ποιητοῦ); first declension

1. A maker, inventer, lawgiver
2. The composer of a poem, author, poet
3. The composer of music
4. The author of a speech

Inflection

Descendants

References

• ποιητής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ποιητής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ποιητής» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G4163”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • author idem, page 53.
  • bard idem, page 62.
  • composer idem, page 153.
  • creator idem, page 183.
  • dramatist idem, page 250.
  • maker idem, page 509.
  • minstrel idem, page 531.
  • poet idem, page 623.

Greek

Noun

ποιητής • ‎(poiitís) m, f ‎(plural ποιητές or ποιητάδες, feminine ποιήτρια)

1. poet (usually male)

Declension

Related terms

• see: ποίηση f ‎(poíisi, “poetry”)