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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Likely from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, create, compose”) + -ᾱς (-ās).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pǒi̯.aːs/ → /ˈpy.as/ → /ˈpi.as/
Proper noun
Ποίᾱς • (Poíās) m (genitive Ποίᾰντος); third declension
- a male given name: Poeas
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Ποίας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022