onomatopoeia
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See also: onomatopoeïa and onomatopœia
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”), from ὀνοματοποιέω (onomatopoiéō, “to coin names”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, to do, to produce”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiːə/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌɒnəˌmɛtəˈpæɪə/
- (US) enPR: än'ə-măt'ə-pēʹə or än'ə-mät'ə-pēʹə, IPA(key): /ˌɑnəˌmætəˈpiːə/, /ˌɑnəˌmɑtəˈpiːə/
- (US, chiefly Midwestern) IPA(key): /ˌɑnəˌmɑnəˈpiːə/, [ˌänɪˌmänʌˈpʰɪi̯ːjʌ]
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -iːə
Noun
onomatopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopoeias or onomatopoeiae)
- (uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, Arte of Rhetorique, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1909:
- A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia, is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things.
- (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
Synonyms
- (instance): onomatope; phonomime
- (process or state):
- echoism
- imitative harmony
- mimesis
- phonomimesis
- sound symbolism
Related terms
Translations
property of a word that sounds like what it represents
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See also
- ideophone
- Wiktionary's category of English onomatopoeias
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ (onomatopoiíā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpoe̯.i.a/, [ɔnɔmät̪ɔˈpoe̯iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpe.i.a/, [onomät̪oˈpɛːiä]
Noun
onomatopoeia f (genitive onomatopoeiae); first declension
- (rhetoric) onomatopoeia (the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing that it signifies)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- French: onomatopée
- English: onomatopoeia
- Italian: onomatopea
- Spanish: onomatopeya
References
- “ŏnŏmătŏpoeïa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ŏnŏmătŏpœĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,080/2.
- “onomatopoeia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “onomatopoeia” on page 1,250/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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