onomatopoeia
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See also onomatopœia
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiia, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”), from ὀνοματοποιέω (onomatopoieo, “to coin names”), from ὄνομα (onoma, “name”) + ποιέω (poieo, “to make, to do, to produce”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (RP) IPA: /ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiə/, X-SAMPA: /%Qn@%m{t@"pi@/
- (US) enPR: än'ə-măt'ə-pēʹə or än'ə-mät'ə-pēʹə, IPA: /ˌɑːnəˌmætəˈpiə/, /ˌɑːnəˌmɑːtəˈpiə/, X-SAMPA: /%A:n@%m{t@"pi@/, /%A:n@%mA:t@"pi@/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iə
Noun[edit]
onomatopoeia (countable and uncountable; plural onomatopoeias or onomatopoeiae)
- (uncountable) The property of a word of sounding 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.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, Arte of Rhetorique[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1909:
- (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
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Translations[edit]
property of a word of sounding like what it represents
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word that sounds like what it represents
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See also[edit]
- Wiktionary's category of onomatopoeias
