poetica licentia

Literally, “poetic licence”.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /poˈeː.ti.ka liˈken.ti.a/, [poˈeːt̪ɪkä lʲɪˈkɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /poˈe.ti.ka liˈt͡ʃen.t͡si.a/, [poˈɛːt̪ikä liˈt͡ʃɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

poētica licentia f (genitive poēticae licentiae); first declension

1. (rhetoric) poetic licence (any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken to achieve a desired effect)
   • c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory 2.4.3:

     […] neque rursus sinuosa et arcessitis descriptionibus, in quas plerique imitatione poeticae licentiae ducuntur, lasciviat.

     […] nor, on the other hand, should it be sinuous or frolic in extraneous descriptions, in which most people are led into by imitation of poetic license.

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• → Polish: licentia poetica

• “licentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press