Word.ws English Dictionary

-poeia

UK/ˈpiːə/

-poeia suffix: used to form nouns that denote the making or creating of something.

Suffix

-poeia

  1. Used to form nouns that denote the making or creating of something.

Forms of -poeia

alternative form-pœia

Origin of -poeia

From Latin -poeia, from Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō, “I make”).

Questions about -poeia

What does -poeia mean?
-poeia means used to form nouns that denote the making or creating of something.
What part of speech is -poeia?
-poeia is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -poeia?
-poeia is pronounced /ˈpiːə/ (UK).

Words near -poeia in the dictionary

  1. -podal
  2. -pode
  3. -podium
  4. -podous
  5. -pody
  6. -poeia
  7. -poesis
  8. -poiesis
  9. -poietic
  10. -pol
  11. -poleis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -poeia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “-poeia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/-poeia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.