poésie

== French == === Alternative forms === poësie (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poēsia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔ.e.zi/ Rhymes: -i Homophone: poésies === Noun === poésie f (plural poésies) poetry (literature composed in verse) Coordinate term: prose (figuratively) poetry ==== Related terms ==== poème poète poétique ==== Descendants ==== Haitian Creole: pwezi → Danish: poesi → German: Poesie → Romanian: poezie → Polish: poezja→ Russian: поэ́зия (poézija), поэ́зія (poézija) — pre-1918 spelling→ Kazakh: поэзия (poéziä) === Further reading === “poésie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012