onomatopeia

onomatopeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias)

1. US spelling of onomatopoeia

onomatopeia

1. onomatopoeia

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

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

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeies)

1. onomatopoeia

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

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeias)

1. onomatopoeia

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.no.ma.toˈpeː.i.a/, [ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔˈpeː.i.a]

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)

First declension.

• (property): onomatopoese

• onomatopeico
• onomatópico
• onomatopoese
• onomatopoético

• Category:pt:Onomatopoeia