poésie
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French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poēsia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis).
Pronunciation
Noun
poésie f (plural poésies)
- poetry (literature composed in verse)
- Coordinate term: prose
- (figuratively) poetry
Related terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: pwezi
- → Danish: poesi
- → German: Poesie
- → Romanian: poezie
- → Polish: poezja
- → Russian: поэ́зия (poézija), поэ́зія (poézija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Kazakh: поэзия (poéziä)
- → Russian: поэ́зия (poézija), поэ́зія (poézija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Further reading
- “poésie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.