poema Latin · revision 7642

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [poˈeː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [poˈɛː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''poēma''' ''n'' (genitive poēmatis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ποίημα|tr=poíēma|t=thing made, poem]], from [[m|grc|ποιέω|tr=poiéō|t=to make]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline) Old forms include the genitive plural ⟨poēmatōrum⟩, as in Afranius and Varro, and the dative ⟨poēmatīs⟩, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Ennius, whom he dates 204–169 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Plautus has the dative plural ''poēmatīs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a composition in verse, a poem, as Cicero's ''poēma compōnere'', ''condere'' and ''facere'', and Horace's ''pangere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero it also meant any composition of poetic quality, metrical or not.^(OLD 2012)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a metrical composition and collectively for poetry.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian and Spanish ''poema'' and French ''poème'', and French ''poème'' gave [[en|poem]] in the 1540s, replacing poesy.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of writing poems.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English ''poem'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|poem]]; a composition of poetic quality.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|Poetry]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[poēta]]

+ * [[poētria]]

+ * [[en|poem]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}