-poeia-peiacomb. form
Primary stress is usually attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g.
ethopoeia n.Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin -poeia.
Etymology: < classical Latin -poeia < ancient Greek -ποιία , combining form (in e.g. μελοποιία melopoeia n.) < -ποιός making (in e.g. μελοποιός maker of songs (see melopoeia n.); < ποιεῖν to make: see poet n.) + -ία -ia suffix1. Compare -poiesis comb. form and -poetic comb. form.Combined with first elements of ultimately Greek origin. The earliest example in English is onomatopoeia n., and this and other early examples are taken from Greek, sometimes via Latin; the formations in -poeia made directly in English, apart from mythopoeia n., are rare or ad hoc formations, e.g. henopoeia n. (17th cent.), logopœia n. (20th cent.), phanopoeia n. (20th cent.), and rhymopoeia n. (18th cent.).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2020).