onomatopeia

== English == === Noun === onomatopeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias) (US) Uncommon spelling of onomatopoeia. ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “onomatopeia, onomatopoeia”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer. == Basque == === Noun === onomatopeia ? onomatopoeia ==== Declension ==== == 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] === Noun === onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeies) onomatopoeia == Galician == === Etymology === From Late Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía). === Noun === onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeias) 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 rare form of onomatopoeïa c. 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum (Young Scholars' Storeroom), quoted in 1991 in The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories: 1400s, Poliziano, quoted in 2015, Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe, page 54: (uncountable) onomatopoeia (property of a word of sounding like what it represents) onomatopoeia (word that sounds like what it represents) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. == 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 === Hyphenation: o‧no‧ma‧to‧pei‧a === Noun === onomatopeia f (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias) (linguistics, uncountable) onomatopoeia (property of a word of sounding like what it represents) Synonym: onomatopoese (linguistics, countable) onomatopoeia (word that sounds like what it represents) ==== Related terms ==== === 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