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poeta

poeta

See also: poéta and poetă

Asturian

Noun

poeta m, f (plural poetes)

  1. poet (person who writes poems)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin poēta.

Noun

poeta m, f (plural poetes)

  1. poet

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin poēta.

Noun

poeta m (plural poetas)

  1. poet

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Italian

Noun

poeta m (plural poeti) Feminine poetessa

  1. poet (male or unspecified sex)

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Verb

poeta

  1. third-person singular present indicative of poetare
  2. second-person singular imperative of poetare

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, poet, writer)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /poˈeː.ta/, [pɔˈeː.ta]

Noun

poēta m (genitive poētae); first declension

  1. a poet
    Si versus horum duorum poetarum neglegetis, magna parte litterarum carebitis.
    If you neglect the verses of these two poets, you will miss a great part of literature.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative poēta poētae
genitive poētae poētārum
dative poētae poētīs
accusative poētam poētās
ablative poētā poētīs
vocative poēta poētae

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Descendants

References

  • poeta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • poeta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “poeta”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • an epic, heroic poet: poeta epicus
    • a dramatic poet: poeta scaenicus
    • a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
  • poeta in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Polish

Etymology

From Latin poeta, from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, poet, writer)

Pronunciation

Noun

poeta m pers

  1. poet

Declension

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin poēta

Pronunciation

Noun

poeta m (plural poetas, feminine poetisa, feminine plural poetisas)

  1. poet

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:poeta.


Spanish

Etymology

From Latin poēta

Noun

poeta m, f (plural poetas)

  1. poet