onomatopeia

See also: onomatopéia

English

Noun

onomatopeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias)

  1. Rare spelling of onomatopoeia.

Further reading

Basque

Noun

onomatopeia ?

  1. onomatopoeia

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /o.no.mə.toˈpɛ.jə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /u.nu.mə.tuˈpɛ.jə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpɛ.ja/

Noun

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeies)

  1. onomatopoeia

Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeias)

  1. onomatopoeia

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpeːi̯.a/, [ɔnɔmät̪ɔˈpeːi̯ä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpej.a/, [onomät̪oˈpɛjä]

Noun

onomatopēia f (genitive onomatopēiae); first declension

  1. Rare form of onomatopoeia.
    • 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.
    • 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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative onomatopēia onomatopēiae
Genitive onomatopēiae onomatopēiārum
Dative onomatopēiae onomatopēiīs
Accusative onomatopēiam onomatopēiās
Ablative onomatopēiā onomatopēiīs
Vocative onomatopēia onomatopēiae

Synonyms

  • (property): onomatopoese

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, the coining of a word in imitation of a sound).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌõ.no.ma.toˈpɛj.ɐ/ [ˌõ.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.ɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌo.no.ma.toˈpɛj.a/ [ˌo.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.a]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpɐj.ɐ/
    • (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpej.ɐ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpe.ɐ/

  • Hyphenation: o‧no‧ma‧to‧pei‧a

Noun

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeias)

  1. (linguistics, uncountable) onomatopoeia (property of a word of sounding like what it represents)
  2. onomatopoeia (word that sounds like what it represents)
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