ποιητής Ancient Greek · revision 15486

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=5th century BC, Herodotus|origins=grc ποιέω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (5th-century BC Attic): /poi̯.ɛː.tɛ̌ːs/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /py.iˈtis/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /py.iˈtis/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ποιητής''' (poiētḗs) ''m'' (genitive ποιητοῦ); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|grc|ποιέω|tr=poiéō|t=to make]] with the agent suffix [[m|grc|-τής|tr=-tḗs]].^(Wiktionary) A variant spelling is [[m|grc|ποητής|tr=poētḗs]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first recorded uses are in Heraclitus, Herodotus and Thucydides, for poets.^(GLAUx)^(CGL 2021)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its original sense was “maker”.^(Triantafyllidis 1998) Plato uses it for the maker of objects, such as a god, a carpenter or an artist, and calls the creator “the maker and father of this universe”;^(CGL 2021)^(Πάπυρος) Xenophon uses it for the deviser of stratagems, and Plato, disparagingly, for the inventors of gods.^(CGL 2021) It was also the composer of music, and Isocrates uses it for the author of a speech.^(CGL 2021) “The poet”, with the article, usually meant Homer (Plato, Aristotle, Polybius).^(CGL 2021)

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+ Latin borrowed it as [[m|la|poēta]], and Russian ''поэт'' comes from it.^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) The Christian Creed calls God “maker of heaven and earth”.^(Πάπυρος) Modern Greek ''ποιητής'' is a learned word for a poet.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 5th century BC – Herodotus and Thucydides use it for poets.^(GLAUx)^(CGL 2021)^(DGE)

+ * 5th–4th century BC – Plato uses it for a maker and for a composer of music.^(CGL 2021)^(DGE)

+ * 4th century BC – Aristotle calls Homer “the poet”.^(CGL 2021)^(DGE)

+ * Modern Greek – ''ποιητής'' means a poet.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|maker]], creator; a deviser, inventor.^(CGL 2021)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|poet]], composer of poems.^(CGL 2021)

+ # A composer of music.^(CGL 2021)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The author of a speech.^(CGL 2021)

+ # ''(with the article)'' The poet, Homer.^(CGL 2021)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[la|poēta]]

+ * [[en|poet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}