different between criticaster vs poetaster

English

Etymology

critic +? -aster

Noun

criticaster (plural criticasters)

1. A petty or charlatan critic.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kritikaster or Spanish criticastro. Equivalent to criticus +? -aster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kri.ti?k?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: cri?ti?cas?ter
• Rhymes: -?st?r

Noun

criticaster m (plural criticasters, diminutive criticastertje n)

1. criticaster, uncharitable critic

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin po?taster. Equivalent to poet +? -aster.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æst?(r)

Noun

poetaster (plural poetasters)

1. An unskilled poet.
   • 1853, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character, The Reviewer: Lord Jeffrey, page 219:

     Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.

Related terms

• poetastress
• criticaster
• mathematicaster
• philosophaster
• politicaster

Translations

Anagrams

• operettas, taste pore

Latin

Etymology

From po?t(a) (“poet”) +? -aster (“expressing incomplete resemblance”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.e??tas.ter/, [poe??t?äs?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.e?tas.ter/, [p???t??st??r]

Noun

po?taster m (genitive po?tastr?); second declension

1. (New Latin) poetaster

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• poetaster in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016