A sign in a shop window in Milan using the onomatopoeiatic tac to represent the sound of a clockBorrowed fromLatinonomatopoeïa, fromAncient Greekὀνοματοποιία(onomatopoiía,“the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”), fromὀνοματοποιέω(onomatopoiéō,“to coin names”), fromὄνομα(ónoma,“name”) +ποιέω(poiéō,“to make, to do, to produce”).
onomatopoeia (countable anduncountable,pluralonomatopoeiasoronomatopoeiae)
- (uncountable) The property of aword that sounds like what it represents.
1553,Thomas Wilson,Desiderius Erasmus,Arte of Rhetorique[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, published1909:A woorde making called of the GreciansOnomatapoia, is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things.
- (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
- (countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; anideophone,phenomime.
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
property of a word that sounds like what it represents
- Albanian:onomatope (sq) f
- Arabic:مُحَاكَاة صَوْتِيَّة f(muḥākā(t) ṣawtiyya)
- Armenian:բնաձայնություն (hy)(bnajaynutʻyun)
- Basque:onomatopeia
- Bulgarian:ономатопе́я f(onomatopéja)
- Catalan:onomatopeia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:象聲 /象声 (zh)(xiàngshēng),擬聲 /拟声 (zh)(nǐshēng),狀聲 /状声(zhuàngshēng)
- Czech:zvukomalba f,onomatopoie (cs) f
- Danish:onomatopoietikon (da) n
- Dutch:onomatopee (nl) f
- Esperanto:onomatopeo (eo)
- Estonian:onomatopöa,helijäljendus
- Finnish:onomatopoeettisuus,onomatopoesia (fi)
- French:onomatopée (fr) f
- Galician:onomatopeia (gl) f
- Georgian:ონომატოპეა (ka)(onomaṭoṗea),ხმაბაძვა(xmabaʒva)
- German:Lautmalerei (de) f,Klangnachahmung f(less common),Lautnachahmung f,Schallnachahmung f,Onomatopöie (de) f,Onomatopoesie (de) f
- Greek:ονοματοποιία (el) f(onomatopoiía)
- Hindi:स्वनानुकरणात्मक ?(svanānukarṇātmak),अनुकरण (hi) m(anukraṇ)
- Hungarian:hangutánzójelleg
- Icelandic:hljóðgerving (is) f
- Indonesian:onomatopoeia (id),pembentukan kata yg meniru suara
- Irish:onamataipé f,fuaimfhoclaíocht f
- Italian:onomatopea (it) f
- Japanese:擬音 (ja)(gion),擬声 (ja)(gisei)
- Latin:onomatopoeïa f
- Macedonian:ономатопе́ја f(onomatopéja),подражавање n(podražavanje)
- Manx:arrish-ockleeaght f
- Norwegian:onomatopoetikon (no) n
- Polish:onomatopeja (pl) f
- Portuguese:onomatopeia (pt) f
- Romanian:onomatopee (ro) f
- Russian:звукоподража́ние (ru) n(zvukopodražánije),ономатопе́я (ru) f(onomatopéja)
- Spanish:onomatopeya (es) f
- Swedish:onomatopoetikon (sv) c
- Tagalog:sintunog,onomatopeya
- Vietnamese:tượng thanh (vi)
- Yoruba:ìfìrósínròójẹ
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word that sounds like what it represents
- Albanian:onomatope (sq) f
- Armenian:բնաձայնություն (hy)(bnajaynutʻyun)
- Bulgarian:ономатопея f(onomatopeja)
- Catalan:onomatopeia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:象聲詞 /象声词 (zh)(xiàngshēngcí),擬聲詞 /拟声词 (zh)(nǐshēngcí),擬聲語 /拟声语(nǐshēngyǔ),狀聲詞 /状声词 (zh)(zhuàngshēngcí)
- Czech:zvukomalebnéslovo n,onomatopoion (cs) n
- Danish:lydord (da) n,onomatopoietikon (da) n
- Dutch:onomatopee (nl) f,klanknabootsing (nl) f
- Esperanto:onomatopeo (eo),sonimito (eo)
- Estonian:kõlasõna
- Faroese:ljóðorð n
- Finnish:onomatopoeettinensana
- French:onomatopée (fr) f
- Galician:onomatopeia (gl) f
- German:lautmalerischesWort n,lautmalendesWort n,lautnachahmendesWort n,klangnachahmendesWort n,onomatopoetischesWort n,Klangwort n,Schallwort (de) n,Onomatopoetikum (de) n
- Greek:ονοματοποιία (el) f(onomatopoiía)
- Hindi:स्वनानुकरणात्मक ?(svanānukarṇātmak),अनुकरण (hi) m(anukraṇ)
- Hungarian:hangutánzó-hangulatfestő/hangfestőszó
- Icelandic:hljóðlíkingarorð n,hljóðgervingur (is) m
- Italian:onomatopea (it) f
- Japanese:擬音語 (ja)(giongo),擬声語 (ja)(giseigo),擬態語 (ja)(gitaigo),オノマトペ (ja)(onomatope)
- Korean:의성어(擬聲語) (ko)(uiseong'eo)
- Latin:onomatopoēticum n,vocābulumonomatopoēticum n
- Macedonian:ономатопе́ја f(onomatopéja),подражавање n(podražavanje)
- Manx:(pleaseverify)arrish-ockleeaght f
- Maori:kupu ororite,kupu pakoire oro
- Norwegian:lydord n,onomatopoetikon (no) m orn
- Persian:نامآوا (fa)(namava)
- Polish:onomatopeja (pl) f,wyraz dźwiękonaśladowczy (pl) m
- Portuguese:onomatopeia (pt) f
- Punjabi:صوت f(ṣot),ਸੌਤ (pa) f(saut)
- Romanian:onomatopee (ro) f
- Russian:звукоподража́ние (ru) n(zvukopodražánije),ономатопе́я (ru) f(onomatopéja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:ономатопе́ја f
- Roman:onomatopéja (sh) f
- Shuar:métek-chícham
- Spanish:onomatopeya (es) f
- Tagalog:sintunog,onomatopeya
- Turkish:onomatope (tr),yansıma sözcük
- Ukrainian:звуконаслі́дування n(zvukonaslíduvannja),ономатопе́я f(onomatopéja)
- Vietnamese:từ tượng thanh
- Welsh:onomatopeia m
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From theAncient Greekὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ(onomătopoiĭ́ā).
onomatopoeïa f (genitiveonomatopoeïae);first declension
- (rhetoric)onomatopoeia(the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing that it signifies)
First-declension noun.
- “ŏnŏmătŏpoeïa”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ŏnŏmătŏpœĭa inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page1,080/2.
- “onomatopoeia”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “onomatopoeia” on page 1,250/1 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
