Latin

Alternative forms

• poësis

Noun

poēsis f ‎(genitive poēsis); third declension

1. poetry
2. a poem

Declension

Third declension i-stem.

Related terms

• poēma
• poēta

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pŏēsis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,194/2.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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 (accessed 20.11.03) 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

1. indefinite genitive singular of poesi