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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *póiwā, from Proto-Indo-European *póyH-weh₂, from *peyH-. Cognate with Lithuanian pieva (“meadow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pó.a/ → /ˈpo.a/ → /ˈpo.a/
Noun
πόᾰ • (póa) f (genitive ποᾱς); first declension
- grass, hay
- (broadly) herbs, plants
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πόα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1214-1215
Further reading
- “πόα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πόα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- πόα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Noun
πόα • (póa) f (plural πόες)
- herb, herbacious plant (plant whose stem isn't woody and which dies every year)