onomatopeia

onomatopeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias)

1. Rare spelling of onomatopoeia.

• onomatopeia, onomatopoeia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

onomatopeia ?

1. onomatopoeia

Borrowed from Late Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.nu.mə.tuˈpɛ.jə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.no.mə.toˈpɛ.jə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.no.ma.toˈpe.ja]

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onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeies)

1. onomatopoeia

From Late Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía).

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeias)

1. onomatopoeia

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔˈpeː.ja]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.no.ma.t̪oˈpɛː.ja]

onomatopēia f (genitive onomatopēiae); first declension

1. rare form of onomatopoeïa
   • c. 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum (Young Scholars' Storeroom), quoted in 1991 in The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories:

     Tynkare ... tintinarius; et capit nomen a sono artis, ut tintinabulum, sus, et multa alia, per onomatopeiam.

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   • 1400s, Poliziano, quoted in 2015, Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe, page 54:

     Dal volgare di Dante si passa disinvoltamente al latino di Poliziano (c. LXXXXVr):

     In quo genere Dantes poeta ob id a multis laudari cum exceptione solet, proptereaque multa ab eo sint per onomatopeiam […]

2. (uncountable) onomatopoeia (property of a word of sounding like what it represents)
3. onomatopoeia (word that sounds like what it represents)

First-declension noun.

• onomatopéia (pre-1990 spelling)
• onomatopéa (pre-standardization spelling)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”).

• Hyphenation: o‧no‧ma‧to‧pei‧a

onomatopeia f (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias)

1. (linguistics, uncountable) onomatopoeia (property of a word of sounding like what it represents)

   Synonym: onomatopoese

2. (linguistics, countable) onomatopoeia (word that sounds like what it represents)
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 25:

     A’s vezes utilizava nas relações com as pessoas a mesma lingua com que se dirigia aos brutos — exclamações, onomatopéas.

     Sometimes he used in his interactions with people the same tongue with which he spoke to wild animals — exclamations, onomatopoeias.