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poem
English
Alternative forms
- poëm (rare or archaic)
- poeme (rare or archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”). Displaced native Old English l?oþ.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p????m/, [?p?????m]
- (US) IPA(key): /?po???m/, /po??m/, [?p?o(??)?m], [?p?o(??)m?], [?p?o(??)m]
- (India) IPA(key): /?po???m/, [?po(??)?m]
- (Malaysia) IPA(key): /poj?m/
- Rhymes: -???m, -??m
Noun
poem (plural poems)
- A literary piece written in verse.
- A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
- A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
Holonyms
- poetry
Derived terms
Related terms
- poet
- poetic
- poetics
- poetry
Translations
Further reading
- poem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- poem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- poem at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- mope, pome
Scots
Etymology
From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pom], [po?m]
Noun
poem (plural poems)
- poem
- 1985, John J. Graham, "E Wir ain aald language. Writin ida Shetland dialect", in Manfred Görlach, Focus on Scotland, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 193.
- Hit wisna till weel trowe da nineteent century at Shetlanders tried der haand at writin ida dialect — maistly poems, wi a antrin story noo an dan.
- 1991, Chapman, No. 67-70, page 36.
- And Hugh MacDiarmid was and is A Brawli Makar, for as siccan folk hand tae 't as thrugaun as a poem itsel, he daes, an daes he no.
- 2000, Chapman, No. 95-97, page 64.
- The pseudonym TSL first thocht on uisin stertin oot ti publish his wark wis Thrawn, an he uised this for whit we think micht be his first published poem in a Sooth African paper at haes (for nou) hidden itsel ower again amang the files.
- 1985, John J. Graham, "E Wir ain aald language. Writin ida Shetland dialect", in Manfred Görlach, Focus on Scotland, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 193.
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”).
Noun
poem n
- poem
Declension
Vilamovian
Noun
poem n
- poem
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hexameter
English
Alternative forms
- hexametre
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- +? meter.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter
Noun
hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)
- (countable) a line in a poem having six metrical feet
- (uncountable) a poetic metre in which each line has six feet
Related terms
- hexametral
- hexametric
Translations
See also
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)
Anagrams
- hexametre
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hexameter, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/, /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/
- Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter
Noun
hexameter m (plural hexameters)
- hexameter
Latin
Etymology
Derived from hexa- +? meter.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hek?sa.me.ter/, [h?k?s?äm?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek?sa.me.ter/, [???z??m?t??r]
Noun
hexameter m (genitive hexametr?); second declension
- hexameter
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
References
- hexameter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hexameter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hexameter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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