English

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.

Related terms

• criticaster
• mathematicaster
• philosophaster
• politicaster

Translations

Anagrams

• operettas

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.eːˈtas.ter/, [pɔ.eːˈtas.tɛr]

Noun

poētaster m ‎(genitive poētastrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) poetaster

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be poētastre.

References

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