poetaster
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. By surface analysis, poet + -aster.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəʊɪtæstə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Noun
editpoetaster (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
editTranslations
editunskilled poet
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Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom poēt(a) (“poet”) + -aster (“expressing incomplete resemblance”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /po.eːˈtas.ter/, [poeːˈt̪äs̠t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /po.eˈtas.ter/, [poeˈt̪äst̪er]
Noun
editpoētaster m (genitive poētastrī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | poētaster | poētastrī |
Genitive | poētastrī | poētastrōrum |
Dative | poētastrō | poētastrīs |
Accusative | poētastrum | poētastrōs |
Ablative | poētastrō | poētastrīs |
Vocative | poētaster | poētastrī |
References
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- New Latin
- la:Poetry