Etymology

poetaster

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Today it means: An unskilled poet. Full definition →

New Latin poētaster
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  1. New Latin · learned borrowing frompoētaster
  2. English todaypoetaster

Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. By surface analysis, poet + -aster.

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