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Noun

onomatopeia f ‎(plural onomatopeies)

1. onomatopoeia

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

onomatopeia f ‎(genitive onomatopeiae); 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 […]

Inflection

First declension.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• onomatopéia (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία ‎(onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌo.no.ˌma.to.ˈpɛj.a/, /ˌo.no.ˌma.to.ˈpɛj.ɐ/

Noun

onomatopeia f (plural onomatopeias)

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

Synonyms

• (property): onomatopoese

Related terms

• onomatopeico
• onomatópico
• onomatopoese
• onomatopoético

See also

• Category:pt:Onomatopoeia