# onomatopeia
## English
### Noun

onomatopeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopeias)
* Rare spelling of onomatopoeia.

### Further reading

* onomatopeia, onomatopoeia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

## Basque
### Noun

onomatopeia ?
* onomatopoeia

#### Declension
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [u.nu.mə.tuˈpɛ.jə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [o.no.mə.toˈpɛ.jə]
* IPA: (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: /o.no.ma.toˈpeː.i̯a/, [ɔnɔmät̪ɔˈpeːi̯ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /o.no.ma.toˈpe.ja/, [onomät̪oˈpɛːjä]

### 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:
    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 […]
* (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)

### 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: /o.no.ma.toˈpɛj.ɐ/ [o.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.ɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /o.no.ma.toˈpɛj.ɐ/ [o.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.ɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /o.no.ma.toˈpɛj.a/ [o.no.ma.toˈpɛɪ̯.a]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpɐj.ɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpɐj.ɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpej.ɐ/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpej.ɐ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɔ.nɔ.mɐ.tuˈpe.ɐ/
* 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)
** 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