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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis, “production, composition”).
Pronunciation
Noun
poēsis f (genitive poēsis); third declension
- poetry
- a poem
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).
Descendants
References
- “pŏēsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “poesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pŏēsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,194/2.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- dramatic poetry: poesis scaenica
- to devote oneself to poetry: se conferre ad poesis studium
- to transplant to Rome one of the branches of poesy: poesis genus ad Romanos transferre
- poesis in Ramminger, Johann (2024 October (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “poēsis” on page 1,396/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Swedish
Noun
poesis
- indefinite genitive singular of poesi