onomatopeia

See also: onomatopéia

English

Noun

onomatopeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias)

1. Nonstandard spelling of onomatopoeia.

Derived terms

• onomatopeic

Further reading

• “onomatopeia, onomatopoeia”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Basque

Noun

onomatopeia ?

1. onomatopoeia

Declension

Declension of onomatopeia (inan a-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	onomatopeia	onomatopeia	onomatopeiak	onomatopeiok
ergative	onomatopeiak	onomatopeiak	onomatopeiek	onomatopeiok
dative	onomatopeiari	onomatopeiari	onomatopeiei	onomatopeioi
genitive	onomatopeiaren	onomatopeiaren	onomatopeien	onomatopeion
comitative	onomatopeiarekin	onomatopeiarekin	onomatopeiekin	onomatopeiokin
causative	onomatopeiarengatik	onomatopeiarengatik	onomatopeiengatik	onomatopeiongatik
benefactive	onomatopeiarentzat	onomatopeiarentzat	onomatopeientzat	onomatopeiontzat
instrumental	onomatopeiaz	onomatopeiaz	onomatopeiez	onomatopeiotaz
inessive	onomatopeiatan	onomatopeian	onomatopeietan	onomatopeiotan
locative	onomatopeiatako	onomatopeiako	onomatopeietako	onomatopeiotako
allative	onomatopeiatara	onomatopeiara	onomatopeietara	onomatopeiotara
terminative	onomatopeiataraino	onomatopeiaraino	onomatopeietaraino	onomatopeiotaraino
directive	onomatopeiatarantz	onomatopeiarantz	onomatopeietarantz	onomatopeiotarantz
destinative	onomatopeiatarako	onomatopeiarako	onomatopeietarako	onomatopeiotarako
ablative	onomatopeiatatik	onomatopeiatik	onomatopeietatik	onomatopeiotatik
partitive	onomatopeiarik	—	—	—
prolative	onomatopeiatzat	—	—	—

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeies)

1. onomatopoeia

Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeias)

1. onomatopoeia

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	onomatopēia	onomatopēiae
genitive	onomatopēiae	onomatopēiārum
dative	onomatopēiae	onomatopēiīs
accusative	onomatopēiam	onomatopēiās
ablative	onomatopēiā	onomatopēiīs
vocative	onomatopēia	onomatopēiae

Portuguese

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpɛj.ɐ/ [o.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpɛj.ɐ/ [o.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpɛj.a/ [o.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.a]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpɐj.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpɐj.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpej.ɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpej.ɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpe.ɐ/

• Hyphenation: o‧no‧ma‧to‧pei‧a

Noun

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]‎^[1], 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.

Related terms

• onomatopeico
• onomatópico
• onomatopoese
• onomatopoético
• onomatópose

Further reading

• “onomatopeia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “onomatopeia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026