poetaster
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. Equivalent to poet + -aster.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəʊɪtæstə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Noun edit
poetaster (plural poetasters)
- 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[1]:
- 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.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
unskilled poet
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Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From poēt(a) (“poet”) + -aster (“expressing incomplete resemblance”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /po.eːˈtas.ter/, [poeːˈt̪äs̠t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /po.eˈtas.ter/, [poeˈt̪äst̪er]
Noun edit
poētaster m (genitive poētastrī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | poētaster | poētastrī |
Genitive | poētastrī | poētastrōrum |
Dative | poētastrō | poētastrīs |
Accusative | poētastrum | poētastrōs |
Ablative | poētastrō | poētastrīs |
Vocative | poētaster | poētastrī |