onomatopoeia

• onomatopeia, onomatopœia

Borrowed from Latin onomatopoeïa, 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”).

• (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/

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• Rhymes: -iːə

onomatopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopoeias or onomatopoeiae)

1. (uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
   • 1553, Thomas Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, Arte of Rhetorique‎^[1], 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.

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

From the Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ (onomătopoiĭ́ā).

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