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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=grc ποιητικός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [poˈeː.tɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [poˈɛː.ti.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''poēticus''' (feminine poētica, neuter poēticum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Lucilius has the Greek form ''poeēticon''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ποιητικός|tr=poiētikós|t=creative; poetic]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|grc|ποιητός|tr=poiētós|t=made]], from [[m|grc|ποιέω|tr=poiéō|t=to make]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato's ''Carmen de moribus'' says there was no honour for the poetic art,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and the TLL finds it in prose from Cato on.^(TLL) Lucilius has it in the Greek sense “creative”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is what belongs or suits poetry: Varro speaks of poetic words, which delight him more than he uses them,^(OLD 2012) Cicero praises Nicander for writing on farming with a poetic gift,^(OLD 2012) Livy calls some traditions fitter for poetic tales than for sound records,^(OLD 2012) and Quintilian speaks of poetic licence.^(OLD 2012) It is also what is told by the poets, as Cicero's gods of the poets and Juvenal's poetic storm.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively Cicero has poetic chariots and Horace poetic honey.^(OLD 2012) The feminine ''poētica'' or ''poēticē'' is the art of poetry, in Cicero and Nepos,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the adverb ''poēticē'' is found from Pliny the Younger on.^(Lewis & Short 1879) English [[m|en|poetic]] (1520s) was formed from ''poet'' or came through French from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of the poetic art.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius, “creative”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of poetic words and the gods of the poets.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of poetic tales.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1520s – English [[m|en|poetic]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|creative|alt=Creative]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of or suited to [[m|en|poetry]], [[m|en|poetic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Told or described in poetry.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[poēta]]

+ * [[poēma]]

+ * [[poēsis]]

+ * [[en|poetic]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The feminine used as a noun, ''poētica'' or Greek ''poēticē'', is the art of poetry.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}