poetaster

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊɪtæstə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

poetaster (plural poetasters)

1. An unskilled poet.
   • 1853, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, “Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character”, in 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.

   • 1913, Elijah Clarence Hills, S. Griswold Morley, editors, Modern Spanish Lyrics‎^[1]:

     Innumerable poetasters of the early eighteenth century enjoyed fame in their day and some possessed talent; but the obscure and trivial style of the age from which they could not free themselves deprived them of any chance of enduring fame.

• operettas, taste pore

From poēt(a) (“poet”) +‎ -aster (“expressing incomplete resemblance”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [po.eːˈtas.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [po.eˈtas.ter]

poētaster m (genitive poētastrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) poetaster

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

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