poema

See also: poéma and poemą

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈema/ [poˈe.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: po‧e‧ma

Noun

poema m (plural poemes)

1. poem (literary piece written in verse)

   Synonym: poesía

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [puˈɛ.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [poˈe.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [poˈe.ma]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

poema m (plural poemes)

1. poem (literary piece written in verse)

   Synonym: poesia

Related terms

• poesia
• poeta
• poètic

Further reading

• “poema”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “poema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “poema” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “poema” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian поэма (poema).

Noun

poema

1. poem

   Synonym: destan

Declension

Declension of poema

	singular	plural
nominative	poema	poemalar
genitive	poemanıñ	poemalarnıñ
dative	poemağa	poemalarğa
accusative	poemanı	poemalarnı
locative	poemada	poemalarda
ablative	poemadan	poemalardan

References

• “poema”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

poema m (plural poema's, diminutive poemaatje n)

1. puma

Galician

Etymology

From Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma).

Noun

poema m (plural poemas)

1. poem (literary piece written in verse)

   Synonym: poesía

Related terms

• poesía
• poeta
• poético

Further reading

• “poema”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Italian

Etymology

From Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: po‧è‧ma

Noun

poema m (plural poemi)

1. poem (literary piece written in verse)

   Synonym: poesia

Related terms

• poesia
• poeta
• poetico

Further reading

• poema in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma), from ποιέω (poiéō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [poˈeː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [poˈɛː.ma]

Noun

poēma n (genitive poēmatis); third declension

1. poem (literary piece written in verse)
2. poetry

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	poēma	poēmata
genitive	poēmatis	poēmatum
dative	poēmatī	poēmatibus
accusative	poēma	poēmata
ablative	poēmate	poēmatibus
vocative	poēma	poēmata

The plural is also declined like 2nd declension neuter, with an alternative genitive plural poēmatōrum and an alternative dative/ablative plural poēmatīs.

Related terms

• poēta
• poētria

Descendants

• Asturian: poema
• Catalan: poema
• French: poème
• Galician: poema
• German: Poem
• Italian: poema
• Piedmontese: poema
• Portuguese: poema
• Romanian: poem
• Sicilian: puima
• Spanish: poema
• → Hebrew: פוֹאֶמָה

References

• “poema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “poema”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “poema”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to write poetry: poema condere, facere, componere
    

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puˈema/

Noun

poema m

1. poem

Related terms

• poesìa
• poeta
• poétich

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin poēma. First attested in 1752.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈɛ.ma/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /pɔˈɛ.ma/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Syllabification: po‧e‧ma

Noun

poema f

1. (obsolete, poetry) synonym of poemat

Declension

Declension of poema

	singular	plural
nominative	poema	poemy
genitive	poemy	poem
dative	poemie	poemom
accusative	poemę	poemy
instrumental	poemą	poemami
locative	poemie	poemach
vocative	poemo	poemy

Further reading

• poema in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “poema”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “poema”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “poema”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 451
• poema in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /poˈẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /poˈẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /poˈe.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpwe.mɐ/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɔˈẽ.mɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: po‧e‧ma

Noun

poema m (plural poemas)

1. poem (literary piece written in verse)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:poema.

Related terms

• poesia
• poeta
• poético

Further reading

• “poema”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “poema”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈema/ [poˈe.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: po‧e‧ma

Noun

poema m (plural poemas)

1. poem (literary piece written in verse)

   Synonym: poesía

Derived terms

• poema en prosa
• poema sinfónico
• poema visual

Related terms

• poesía
• poeta
• poético

Further reading

• “poema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025