poet English · revision 6354

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1300|origins=grc ποιέω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈpəʊ.ɪt/, /ˈpəʊ.ət/ ''(UK)''; /ˈpoʊ.ət/, /ˈpoʊ.ɪt/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fro|poete]] and directly [[bor|la|poēta|t=poet, author]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[grc|ποιητής|alt=ποητής|tr=poētḗs|t=maker, author, poet]], a variant of poiētḗs, from [[m|grc|ποιέω|tr=poiéō|t=to make, create, compose]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021) which Watkins traces to PIE [[ine-pro|*kʷey-|t=to pile up, build]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A writer of poems: before 1300 in the OED, before 1325, in ''Cursor Mundi'', in Barnhart;^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) Poet is a surname from about 1200.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 14th century, as in classical languages, poet was used of any writer or author (1362).^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) Word Origins notes that a poet is literally ''a maker'', and Puttenham (1589) called the poet ''a maker''.^(Cresswell 2021)^(Etymonline) It replaced Old English scop.^(Etymonline) A writer of great imaginative power, in an emphatic sense, is from 1530.^(OED 1989) ''Poetic justice'' comes from Pope's ''Dunciad'' (1742).^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1200 – Poet, as a surname.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * before 1300 – a writer of poems.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1362 – any author.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1530 – a highly imaginative writer.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A person who writes [[poem|alt=poems]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A person with great imagination or creative sensitivity.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[poetless]]

+ * [[poetlike]]

+ * [[nonpoet]]

+ * [[poetaster]]

+ * [[poetess]]

+ * [[poetical]]

+ * [[poetize]]

+ * [[concrete poet]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[poesy]]

+ * [[poetry]]

+ * [[poem]]

+ * [[poetic]]

+ * [[onomatopoeia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}