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onomatopoeia (L324733)

• onomatopœia, onomatopy (archaic)
• onomatopeia (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιΐα (onomatopoiḯa, “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”). By surface analysis, onomato- +‎ -poeia.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiːə/

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɑnəˌmætəˈpiːə/, /ˌɑnəˌmɑtəˈpiːə/
• (US, chiefly Midwestern) IPA^(key): /ˌɑnəˌmɑnəˈpiːə/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɒnəˌmɛtəˈpæɪə/
• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /ɔnomæʈoˈpijɑ/
• Rhymes: -iːə

onomatopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopoeias or onomatopoeiae)

1. (uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
   • 1553 January, Thomas Wilson, “Word Making”, in The Arte of Rhetorique, […], London: Richardus Graftonus, […], →OCLC, folio 92, verso:

     A woꝛde makinge called of the Grecians Onomatopeia is when we make woꝛdes of oure owne mynde, ſuche as be deriued from the nature of thinges.

2. (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as gurgle, stutter, or hiss.
   1. (countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as thud, beep, or meow; an ideophone, phenomime.
3. (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

• (instance): onomatope; phonomime
• (process or state):
  • echoism
  • imitative harmony
  • mimesis
  • phonomimesis
  • sound symbolism

• ideophone
• Wiktionary's category of English onomatopoeias

• onomatopēïa (Medieval Latin)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ̈́ᾱ (onomătopoiĭ̈́ā).

• onomatopoeïa:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔˈpoe̯.i.a]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.no.ma.toˈpɛː.i.a]
• onomatopoeïā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔˈpoe̯.i.aː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.no.ma.toˈpɛː.i.a]

onomatopoeïa f (genitive onomatopoeïae); first declension

1. (rhetoric) onomatopoeia (the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing that it signifies)

First-declension noun.

• → English: onomatopoeia
• → French: onomatopée
• → Italian: onomatopea
• → Portuguese: onomatopeia
• → Spanish: onomatopeya
  • → Tagalog: onomatopeya

• “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)