# poema
## Asturian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

poema m (plural poemes)
* poem (literary piece written in verse)
    Synonym: poesía

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [puˈɛ.mə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [poˈe.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [poˈe.ma]

### Noun

poema m (plural poemes)
* poem (literary piece written in verse)
    Synonym: poesia

#### Related terms

* poesia
* poeta
* poètic

### Further reading

* “poema” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “poema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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
* poem
    Synonym: destan

#### Declension
### References

* “poema”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

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

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Noun

poema m (plural poemas)
* 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, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poˈɛ.ma/
* Rhymes: -ɛma
* Hyphenation: po‧è‧ma

### Noun

poema m (plural poemi)
* 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: /poˈeː.ma/, [poˈeːmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /poˈe.ma/, [poˈɛːmä]

### Noun

poēma n (genitive poēmatis); third declension
* poem (literary piece written in verse)
* poetry

#### Declension

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

### 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, London: Macmillan and Co. to write poetry: poema condere, facere, componere

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puˈema/

### Noun

poema m
* poem

#### Related terms

* poesìa
* poeta
* poétich

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin poēma. First attested in 1752.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔˈɛ.ma/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /pɔˈɛ.ma/
* Rhymes: -ɛma
* Syllabification: po‧e‧ma

### Noun

poema f
* (obsolete, poetry) Synonym of poemat

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Elżbieta Drużbacka (1752) ZBIOR RYTMOW DUCHOWNYCH, PANEGIRYCZNYCH, MORALNYCH y SWIATOWYCH W. JMći Pani ELZBIETY z KOWALSKICH DRUZBACKIEY SKARBNIKOWY Zydaczewskiey Zebrany y do druku podany PRZEZ J. Z. R. K. O. W. etc.‎ (in Polish), page 7 nlb

### 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: /poˈẽ.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /poˈẽ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /poˈe.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpwe.mɐ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /pɔˈẽ.mɐ/
* Rhymes: -emɐ
* Hyphenation: po‧e‧ma

### Noun

poema m (plural poemas)
* poem (literary piece written in verse)

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:poema.

#### Related terms

* poesia
* poeta
* poético

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poˈema/ [poˈe.ma]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ema
* Syllabification: po‧e‧ma

### Noun

poema m (plural poemas)
* 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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10