Rymare

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who composes verses or rhymes, an old term for a poet or versifier who writes in metrical form
2. An archaic word for someone who makes rhyming poetry, a maker of verse in medieval English
3. One who writes rhymes or metrical poems, a versifier whose craft is producing rhyming lines of poetry

Etymology: The word is a Middle English form of the agent noun for someone who makes rhymes, a rhymer or versifier. It is built from "rime," a verb-and-noun stem meaning rhyme, verse, or rhythm, with the agent ending "-are," a variant of the suffix "-er" that marks a person who performs an action. The same pattern produces many English agent nouns, such as "baker" or "writer." Because the form has the older "-are" ending, it reads as a spelling variant of "rhymer" rather than a separate coinage. Its meaning matches the modern word closely: a person who composes verse, often one considered a poor or crude writer of it.

Synonyms: rhymer, poet