poetaster

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. By surface analysis, poet +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation

Noun

poetaster (plural poetasters)

  1. An unskilled poet.
    • 1853, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, “Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character”, in The Reviewer: Lord Jeffrey, page 219:
      Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.
    • 1913, Elijah Clarence Hills, S. Griswold Morley, editors, Modern Spanish Lyrics‎:
      Innumerable poetasters of the early eighteenth century enjoyed fame in their day and some possessed talent; but the obscure and trivial style of the age from which they could not free themselves deprived them of any chance of enduring fame.

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Latin

Etymology

From poēt(a) (“poet”) +‎ -aster (“expressing incomplete resemblance”).

Pronunciation

Noun

poētaster m (genitive poētastrī); second declension

  1. (New Latin) poetaster

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

singular plural
nominative poētaster poētastrī
genitive poētastrī poētastrōrum
dative poētastrō poētastrīs
accusative poētastrum poētastrōs
ablative poētastrō poētastrīs
vocative poētaster poētastrī

References

  • poetaster in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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