onomatopoeia

== English == === Alternative forms === onomatopeia (US, uncommon) onomatopœia (dated) === Etymology === 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”). By surface analysis, onomato- +‎ -poeia. === Pronunciation === (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/ (Indic) IPA(key): /ɔnomæʈoˈpijɑ/ Rhymes: -iːə === Noun === onomatopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopoeias or onomatopoeiae) (uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents. (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss". (countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime. (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names. ==== Synonyms ==== (instance): onomatope; phonomime (process or state): ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === ideophone Wiktionary's category of English onomatopoeias == Latin == === Etymology === From the Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ (onomătopoiĭ́ā). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔˈpoe̯.i.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.no.ma.toˈpɛː.i.a] === Noun === onomatopoeïa f (genitive onomatopoeïae); first declension (rhetoric) onomatopoeia (the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing that it signifies) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → English: onomatopoeia → French: onomatopée → Italian: onomatopea → Portuguese: onomatopeia → Spanish: onomatopeya→ Tagalog: onomatopeya === References === “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)