p 3 o 1 e 1 t 1 r 1 y 4
6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun literature in metrical form
noun any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
originFrom Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0