poetaster

poetaster

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. Equivalent to poet +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

poetaster (plural poetasters)

1. An unskilled poet.
   • 1853, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character, 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.

Related terms

• poetastress
• criticaster
• logicaster
• mathematicaster
• philosophaster
• politicaster

Translations

unskilled poet

Arabic: شُوَيْعِر‎ m (šuwayʿir), مُتَشَاعِر‎ m (mutašāʿir) Bulgarian: стихоплетец m (stihopletec) Catalan: poetastre (ca) m Esperanto: poetaĉo French: poétastre (fr) m German: Poetaster (de) m Hungarian: fűzfapoéta, poetaszter (rare) Ido: poeteto, poetacho Italian: poetastro m Occitan: please add this translation if you can: Polish: wierszokleta (pl) m, wierszopis m, wierszorób m Portuguese: poetastro m, poetaço m Romanian: poetastru (ro) m, poetaș (ro) m, poetard (ro) m Scottish Gaelic: bàrdan m Spanish: poetastro m, poetucho m Telugu: కుకవి (te) (kukavi)

Anagrams

• operettas, taste pore

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.eːˈtas.ter/, [poeːˈt̪äs̠t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.eˈtas.ter/, [poeˈt̪äst̪er]

Noun

poētaster m (genitive poētastrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) poetaster

Declension

Second-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

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