onomatopeia

See also: onomatopéia

English

Noun

onomatopeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias)

1. Rare spelling of onomatopoeia.

Further reading

• onomatopeia, onomatopoeia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Basque

Noun

onomatopeia ?

1. onomatopoeia

Declension

Declension of onomatopeia (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	onomatopeia	onomatopeia	onomatopeiak
ergative	onomatopeiak	onomatopeiak	onomatopeiek
dative	onomatopeiari	onomatopeiari	onomatopeiei
genitive	onomatopeiaren	onomatopeiaren	onomatopeien
comitative	onomatopeiarekin	onomatopeiarekin	onomatopeiekin
causative	onomatopeiarengatik	onomatopeiarengatik	onomatopeiengatik
benefactive	onomatopeiarentzat	onomatopeiarentzat	onomatopeientzat
instrumental	onomatopeiaz	onomatopeiaz	onomatopeiez
inessive	onomatopeiatan	onomatopeian	onomatopeietan
locative	onomatopeiatako	onomatopeiako	onomatopeietako
allative	onomatopeiatara	onomatopeiara	onomatopeietara
terminative	onomatopeiataraino	onomatopeiaraino	onomatopeietaraino
directive	onomatopeiatarantz	onomatopeiarantz	onomatopeietarantz
destinative	onomatopeiatarako	onomatopeiarako	onomatopeietarako
ablative	onomatopeiatatik	onomatopeiatik	onomatopeietatik
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]

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): /o.no.ma.toˈpeː.i̯a/, [ɔnɔmät̪ɔˈpeːi̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpe.ja/, [onomät̪oˈpɛːjä]

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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], 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