onomatopoeia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Hellenic *ónomə
Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-der.
Proto-Hellenic *kʷoiwéyō
Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō)
Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιός (onomătopoiós)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ (onomătopoiĭ́ā)der.
Latin onomatopoeïabor.
English onomatopoeia
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.
Inflected forms:
form: onomatopoeias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onomatopoeiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onomatopeia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: onomatopy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: onomatopœia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia, is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things.
gloss: A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
uncountable
Synonyms: onomatope
phonomime
echoism
imitative harmony
mimesis
phonomimesis
sound symbolism
Related words: onomatope
onomatopoeial
onomatopoeian
onomatopoeic
onomatopoeious
onomatopoetic
onomatopoetical
onomatopoetically
ideophone
Wiktionary's category of English onomatopoeias
Derived words: onomatopoetry
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: onomatope
lang: Armenian
word: բնաձայնություն
roman: bnajaynutʻyun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təqlidi söz
lang: Bulgarian
word: ономатопея
roman: onomatopeja
lang: Catalan
word: onomatopeia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 象聲詞 /象声词
roman: xiàngshēngcí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 擬聲詞 /拟声词
roman: nǐshēngcí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 擬聲語 /拟声语
roman: nǐshēngyǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 狀聲詞 /状声词
roman: zhuàngshēngcí
lang: Czech
word: zvukomalebné slovo
lang: Czech
word: onomatopoion
lang: Danish
word: lydord
lang: Danish
word: onomatopoietikon
lang: Dutch
word: onomatopee
lang: Dutch
word: klanknabootsing
lang: Esperanto
word: onomatopeo
lang: Esperanto
word: sonimito
lang: Estonian
word: kõlasõna
lang: Faroese
word: ljóðorð
lang: Finnish
word: onomatopoeettinen sana
lang: French
word: onomatopée
lang: Galician
word: onomatopeia
lang: German
word: lautmalerisches Wort
lang: German
word: lautmalendes Wort
lang: German
word: lautnachahmendes Wort
lang: German
word: klangnachahmendes Wort
lang: German
word: onomatopoetisches Wort
lang: German
word: Klangwort
lang: German
word: Schallwort
lang: German
word: Onomatopoetikum
lang: Greek
word: ονοματοποιία
roman: onomatopoiía
lang: Hindi
word: स्वनानुकरणात्मक
roman: svanānukarṇātmak
lang: Hindi
word: अनुकरण
roman: anukraṇ
lang: Hungarian
word: hangutánzó-hangulatfestő/hangfestő szó
lang: Icelandic
word: hljóðlíkingarorð
lang: Icelandic
word: hljóðgervingur
lang: Italian
word: onomatopea
lang: Japanese
word: 擬音語
roman: giongo
lang: Japanese
word: 擬声語
roman: giseigo
lang: Japanese
word: 擬態語
roman: gitaigo
lang: Japanese
word: オノマトペ
roman: onomatope
lang: Korean
word: 의성어
roman: uiseong'eo
lang: Latin
word: onomatopoēticum
lang: Latin
word: vocābulum onomatopoēticum
lang: Macedonian
word: ономатопе́ја
roman: onomatopéja
lang: Macedonian
word: подражавање
roman: podražavanje
lang: Māori
word: kupu ororite
lang: Māori
word: kupu pakoire oro
lang: Norwegian
word: lydord
lang: Norwegian
word: onomatopoetikon
lang: Persian
word: نامآوا
roman: namava
lang: Polish
word: onomatopeja
lang: Polish
word: wyraz dźwiękonaśladowczy
lang: Portuguese
word: onomatopeia
lang: Punjabi
word: صوت
roman: ṣot
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸੌਤ
roman: saut
lang: Romanian
word: onomatopee
lang: Russian
word: звукоподража́ние
roman: zvukopodražánije
lang: Russian
word: ономатопе́я
roman: onomatopéja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ономатопе́ја
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: onomatopéja
lang: Shuar
word: métek-chícham
lang: Spanish
word: onomatopeya
lang: Tagalog
word: sintunog
lang: Tagalog
word: onomatopeya
lang: Turkish
word: onomatope
lang: Turkish
word: yansıma sözcük
lang: Ukrainian
word: звуконаслі́дування
roman: zvukonaslíduvannja
lang: Ukrainian
word: ономатопе́я
roman: onomatopéja
lang: Vietnamese
word: từ tượng thanh
lang: Welsh
word: onomatopeia