ποιήτρια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine of ποιητής (poiētḗs), but built as if from the zero-grade-suffix stem of *ποιητήρ (*poiētḗr) +‎ -ιᾰ (-iă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /poi̯.ɛ̌ː.tri.a/ → /pyˈi.tri.a/ → /piˈi.tri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /poi̯.ɛ̌ː.tri.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈe̝.tri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈi.tri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈi.tri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈi.tri.a/

Noun

ποιήτρῐᾰ • (poiḗtrĭă) f (genitive ποιητρῑ́ᾱς); first declension

1. poetess

Declension

First declension of ἡ ποιήτρῐᾰ; τῆς ποιητρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ποιήτρῐᾰ hē poiḗtrĭă	τὼ ποιητρῐ́ᾱ tṑ poiētrĭ́ā	αἱ ποιήτρῐαι hai poiḗtrĭai
Genitive	τῆς ποιητρῐ́ᾱς tês poiētrĭ́ās	τοῖν ποιητρῐ́αιν toîn poiētrĭ́ain	τῶν ποιητρῐῶν tôn poiētrĭôn
Dative	τῇ ποιητρῐ́ᾳ tēî poiētrĭ́āi	τοῖν ποιητρῐ́αιν toîn poiētrĭ́ain	ταῖς ποιητρῐ́αις taîs poiētrĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ποιήτρῐᾰν tḕn poiḗtrĭăn	τὼ ποιητρῐ́ᾱ tṑ poiētrĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ποιητρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s poiētrĭ́ās
Vocative	ποιήτρῐᾰ poiḗtrĭă	ποιητρῐ́ᾱ poiētrĭ́ā	ποιήτρῐαι poiḗtrĭai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ποιήτρια (poiítria)

References

• “ποιήτρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ποιήτρια (poiḗtria).

Noun

ποιήτρια • (poiítria) f (plural ποιήτριες, masculine ποιητής)

1. female poet, poetess

Declension

Declension of ποιήτρια

	singular	plural
nominative	ποιήτρια (poiítria)	ποιήτριες (poiítries)
genitive	ποιήτριας (poiítrias)	ποιητριών (poiitrión)
accusative	ποιήτρια (poiítria)	ποιήτριες (poiítries)
vocative	ποιήτρια (poiítria)	ποιήτριες (poiítries)

Related terms

• see: ποίηση f (poíisi, “poetry”)

Further reading

• ποιήτρια on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el