Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κοῦ ‎(koû) Ionic

Adverb

ποῦ • ‎(poû)

1. (interrogative adverb)
   1. where?
   2. how?, in what manner?

Usage notes

This word can be used to introduce direct and indirect questions. ὅπου ‎(hópou) can only introduce indirect questions.

Synonyms

• πόθι ‎(póthi)

References

• ποῦ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ποῦ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ποῦ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ποῦ» 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
• «ποῦ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4226”, 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.
  • where idem, page 975.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill