Poetry?
Can anybody help me find out the origin of the word poetry? I need it by tomorrow. Thanks
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From the Greek originally, poetes - maker, poet. In fact, one of the synonyms for poet in 14th-16th century English was `makir, maker`.
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Well, you know what I mean -- a "poetaster" is a bad poet. But where in the world did that word come from?
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The -aster of Poetaster (according to the Conc.OED) is from the L. denoting poor quality (it offers also criticaster, but I'm not sure what kind of critical disaster this is). In botany it refers to...
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a. L. -aster, suffix of ns. and adjs., expressing incomplete resemblance, hence generally pejorative (Diez); e.g. L. philosophaster a petty philosopher, oleaster a wild or bastard olive, surdaster a...
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