poesis

• poësis

From the Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis, “production, composition”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /poˈeː.sis/, [poˈeːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /poˈe.sis/, [poˈɛːs̬is]

poēsis f (genitive poēsis); third declension

1. poetry
2. a poem

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).

• poēma
• poēta

• Old French: poesie
  • Middle French: poesie
    • French: poésie, poësie
      • → Danish: poesi
      • → Dutch: poëzie
        • Afrikaans: poësie
        • → Indonesian: puisi
        • → Malay: puisi
      • → German: Poesie
      • → Romanian: poezie
      • → Polish: poezja
        • → Russian: поэ́зия (poézija), поэ́зія (poézija)
          • → Kazakh: поэзия (poéziä)
    • → English: poesy

• “pŏēsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “poesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pŏēsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,194/2.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • dramatic poetry: poesis scaenica
    
  • to devote oneself to poetry: se conferre ad poesis studium
    
  • to transplant to Rome one of the branches of poesy: poesis genus ad Romanos transferre
    
• poesis in Ramminger, Johann (2024 May 10 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “poēsis” on page 1,396/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

poesis

1. indefinite genitive singular of poesi