onomatopoeian.

Brit.

/ˌɒnəmatəˈpiːə/, U.S.

/ˈˌɑnəˌmɑdəˈpiə/,

/ˈˌɑnəˌmædəˈpiə/

Inflections: Plural onomatopoeias, unchanged.

Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s– onomatopeia, 1600s– onomatopoeia, 1800s onomatopoieia.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin onomatopoeia.

Etymology: < classical Latin onomatopoeia the making of words < Hellenistic Greek ὀνοματοποιία < ancient Greek ὀνοματο- onomato- comb. form + -ποιία -poeia comb. form. Compare Middle French, French onomatopée imitative formation of a word (1585), a word formed in this way (1768; 1665 as omomatopeia : compare sense 1b), Italian onomatopea (1560; a1498 as onomatopia), Old Occitan onomothopeya (c1330), Spanish onomatopeya (1450 as onomatopeia). N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (onǫ:mătopī·yă, ǫ:nŏmă-) /əʊˌnɒmətəʊˈpiːjə/ /ˌɒnəʊmæt-/.

a. The formation of a word from a sound associated with the thing or action being named; the formation of words imitative of sounds. Occasionally: the fact or quality of being onomatopoeic.In quot. 1835, onomatopoeia is used (perhaps humorously) to denote the formation of a word from another word which sounds alike; cf. paronomasia n.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > onomatopoeia

onomatopoeia1553

new-namer1589

onomatopy1658

onomatopoesis1864

onomatopoesy1885

onomatopoeics1934

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 92^v A worde makinge called of the Grecians Onomatopeia is when we make wordes of oure owne mynde, suche as be deriued from the nature of thinges.

1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Civ Onomatopeia, when we inuent, deuise, fayne, and make a name, immitating the sownd of that it sygnifyeth, as hurliburly, for an uprore, and tumultuous stirre.

1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 72 Onomatopœia..Nominis seu nominum fictio, the feigning of a name or names.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The surest Etymologies are those deduced by the Onomatopæia.

1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 455/1 The words calk us, which, united into caucus, may produce a kind of onomatopœia, descriptive of the assemblage in question.

1852 H. Spencer Philos. Style (1891) II. 338 That frequent cause of strength in Saxon and other primitive words—their onomatopoeia.

1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) viii. 283 Without..supposing..that all our root-words have originated from onomatopœia.

1920 Mind 29 195 (note) Words may be truly expressive in sound that are quite free from onomatopoeia, whether fairly direct, as in splash, crash, or indirect and analogical.

1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. vii. 110 A language they had evolved in the course of the journey out of a little Swahili, some Sechuana and a lot of onomatopœia.

1991 Sci. Amer. Apr. 78/1 Early words may have formed by onomatopoeia, as in bow-wow for dog, cuckoo for the familiar bird and whoosh for a puff of wind.

b. A word formed by onomatopoeia. Cf. onomatope n.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > onomatopoeia > word or form

onomatope1828

onomatopoeiaa1831

onomatopoeian1860

ideophone1935

a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 179/1 Hout! seems to be an onomatopoeia of the same nature as the English verb, to hoot.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 845/1 Onomatopœia..a word expressing by its sound the thing represented.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 120 We call such words ‘onomatopœias’, literally ‘name-makings’, because the Greeks did so.

1935 E. H. Warmington Remains Old Lat. ii. 131 ‘Mutus’ is an onomatopoeia of a vague utterance, as it were a ‘moo’.

1959 Mod. Lang. Notes 74 130 The German word Tingeltangel ‘night-club’..is..an onomatopoeia for ‘Musik mit Beckenschlag und Schellenbaum’.

2002 Univ. Wire (Nexis) 2 Oct. The song-writing process for me involves choosing words that..embody more of a rock cliche... That is why I use a lot of onomatopoeia, like ‘band’.

2. The use of echoic or suggestive language, esp. onomatopes, for rhetorical effect. Occasionally in Music: the use of imitative or echoic instrumentation, rhythms, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > onomatopoeia

onomatopoeia1895

1895 E. S. Phelps Chapters from Life iii. 48 As much taken aback as if he had found a tribe of Cherokees studying onomatopoeia in English verse.

1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. anno 1670 II. App. 519 [Ld. Tennyson on Paradise Lost] A good instance of onomatopœia: ‘On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound The infernal doors [etc.]’.

1911 F. B. Grummere Democracy & Poetry v. 244 Emerson..praises the splendid onomatopoeia of the climax as unsurpassed in poetry.

1940 ELH 7 113 Henry Peacham, the Elder, in his book on rhetoric, The Garden of Eloquence, uses the Shepheardes Calender to illustrate onomatopoeia which is achieved among other ways by imitating the ancients.

1993 M. Novak in M. Benedikt Cyberspace 229 Tools of poets: image and rhythm.., onomatopoeia, prosody, trope, tension, ellipsis.

2001 Church Times 1 June 30/2 Even the rhythms feel Brittenesque, and the punchy onomatopoeia of the last section..even more so.

Derivatives

† onomatopoeial adj. Obsolete rare of or relating to onomatopoeia (sense 2).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > onomatopoeial

onomatopoeial1880

1880 Academy 28 Feb. 153/1 The technique of such work is irreproachable; the onomatopoeial sense of sound is most discriminative.

† onomatopoeian n. and adj. Obsolete (a) n. = onomatope n.; (b) adj. = onomatopoeic adj.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > onomatopoeic

onomatopoeious1661

onomatopoietical1709

onomatopoetic1847

onomatopoeian1860

onomatopoeic1860

onomatopoetical1866

onomatopoietic1875

echoic1880

onomatopoeical1880

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > onomatopoeia > word or form

onomatope1828

onomatopoeiaa1831

onomatopoeian1860

ideophone1935

1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. 108 An onomatopœian which gives rise to a large number of cognate words in the Indo-European languages.

1867 Athenæum 12 Jan. 58 In other instances the onomatopœian word is a verb in the one country and a noun in the other; thus the turkey which gobbles in England is a bubbly in Scotland.

† onomatopoeious adj. Obsolete rare = onomatopoeial adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > onomatopoeic

onomatopoeious1661

onomatopoietical1709

onomatopoetic1847

onomatopoeian1860

onomatopoeic1860

onomatopoetical1866

onomatopoietic1875

echoic1880

onomatopoeical1880

1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Onomatopeious, pertaining to the Figure Onomatopœia, which is a faining a name from any kind of sound.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	onomatopoeia
释义	onomatopoeian. Brit. /ˌɒnəmatəˈpiːə/, U.S. /ˈˌɑnəˌmɑdəˈpiə/, /ˈˌɑnəˌmædəˈpiə/ Inflections: Plural onomatopoeias, unchanged. Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s– onomatopeia, 1600s– onomatopoeia, 1800s onomatopoieia. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin onomatopoeia. Etymology: < classical Latin onomatopoeia the making of words < Hellenistic Greek ὀνοματοποιία < ancient Greek ὀνοματο- onomato- comb. form + -ποιία -poeia comb. form. Compare Middle French, French onomatopée imitative formation of a word (1585), a word formed in this way (1768; 1665 as omomatopeia : compare sense 1b), Italian onomatopea (1560; a1498 as onomatopia), Old Occitan onomothopeya (c1330), Spanish onomatopeya (1450 as onomatopeia). N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (onǫ:mătopī·yă, ǫ:nŏmă-) /əʊˌnɒmətəʊˈpiːjə/ /ˌɒnəʊmæt-/. 1. a. The formation of a word from a sound associated with the thing or action being named; the formation of words imitative of sounds. Occasionally: the fact or quality of being onomatopoeic.In quot. 1835, onomatopoeia is used (perhaps humorously) to denote the formation of a word from another word which sounds alike; cf. paronomasia n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > onomatopoeia onomatopoeia1553 new-namer1589 onomatopy1658 onomatopoesis1864 onomatopoesy1885 onomatopoeics1934 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 92^v A worde makinge called of the Grecians Onomatopeia is when we make wordes of oure owne mynde, suche as be deriued from the nature of thinges. 1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Civ Onomatopeia, when we inuent, deuise, fayne, and make a name, immitating the sownd of that it sygnifyeth, as hurliburly, for an uprore, and tumultuous stirre. 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 72 Onomatopœia..Nominis seu nominum fictio, the feigning of a name or names. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The surest Etymologies are those deduced by the Onomatopæia. 1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 455/1 The words calk us, which, united into caucus, may produce a kind of onomatopœia, descriptive of the assemblage in question. 1852 H. Spencer Philos. Style (1891) II. 338 That frequent cause of strength in Saxon and other primitive words—their onomatopoeia. 1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) viii. 283 Without..supposing..that all our root-words have originated from onomatopœia. 1920 Mind 29 195 (note) Words may be truly expressive in sound that are quite free from onomatopoeia, whether fairly direct, as in splash, crash, or indirect and analogical. 1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. vii. 110 A language they had evolved in the course of the journey out of a little Swahili, some Sechuana and a lot of onomatopœia. 1991 Sci. Amer. Apr. 78/1 Early words may have formed by onomatopoeia, as in bow-wow for dog, cuckoo for the familiar bird and whoosh for a puff of wind. b. A word formed by onomatopoeia. Cf. onomatope n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > onomatopoeia > word or form onomatope1828 onomatopoeiaa1831 onomatopoeian1860 ideophone1935 a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 179/1 Hout! seems to be an onomatopoeia of the same nature as the English verb, to hoot. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 845/1 Onomatopœia..a word expressing by its sound the thing represented. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 120 We call such words ‘onomatopœias’, literally ‘name-makings’, because the Greeks did so. 1935 E. H. Warmington Remains Old Lat. ii. 131 ‘Mutus’ is an onomatopoeia of a vague utterance, as it were a ‘moo’. 1959 Mod. Lang. Notes 74 130 The German word Tingeltangel ‘night-club’..is..an onomatopoeia for ‘Musik mit Beckenschlag und Schellenbaum’. 2002 Univ. Wire (Nexis) 2 Oct. The song-writing process for me involves choosing words that..embody more of a rock cliche... That is why I use a lot of onomatopoeia, like ‘band’. 2. The use of echoic or suggestive language, esp. onomatopes, for rhetorical effect. Occasionally in Music: the use of imitative or echoic instrumentation, rhythms, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > onomatopoeia onomatopoeia1895 1895 E. S. Phelps Chapters from Life iii. 48 As much taken aback as if he had found a tribe of Cherokees studying onomatopoeia in English verse. 1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. anno 1670 II. App. 519 [Ld. Tennyson on Paradise Lost] A good instance of onomatopœia: ‘On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound The infernal doors [etc.]’. 1911 F. B. Grummere Democracy & Poetry v. 244 Emerson..praises the splendid onomatopoeia of the climax as unsurpassed in poetry. 1940 ELH 7 113 Henry Peacham, the Elder, in his book on rhetoric, The Garden of Eloquence, uses the Shepheardes Calender to illustrate onomatopoeia which is achieved among other ways by imitating the ancients. 1993 M. Novak in M. Benedikt Cyberspace 229 Tools of poets: image and rhythm.., onomatopoeia, prosody, trope, tension, ellipsis. 2001 Church Times 1 June 30/2 Even the rhythms feel Brittenesque, and the punchy onomatopoeia of the last section..even more so. Derivatives † onomatopoeial adj. Obsolete rare of or relating to onomatopoeia (sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > onomatopoeial onomatopoeial1880 1880 Academy 28 Feb. 153/1 The technique of such work is irreproachable; the onomatopoeial sense of sound is most discriminative. † onomatopoeian n. and adj. Obsolete (a) n. = onomatope n.; (b) adj. = onomatopoeic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > onomatopoeic onomatopoeious1661 onomatopoietical1709 onomatopoetic1847 onomatopoeian1860 onomatopoeic1860 onomatopoetical1866 onomatopoietic1875 echoic1880 onomatopoeical1880 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > onomatopoeia > word or form onomatope1828 onomatopoeiaa1831 onomatopoeian1860 ideophone1935 1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. 108 An onomatopœian which gives rise to a large number of cognate words in the Indo-European languages. 1867 Athenæum 12 Jan. 58 In other instances the onomatopœian word is a verb in the one country and a noun in the other; thus the turkey which gobbles in England is a bubbly in Scotland. † onomatopoeious adj. Obsolete rare = onomatopoeial adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > onomatopoeic onomatopoeious1661 onomatopoietical1709 onomatopoetic1847 onomatopoeian1860 onomatopoeic1860 onomatopoetical1866 onomatopoietic1875 echoic1880 onomatopoeical1880 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Onomatopeious, pertaining to the Figure Onomatopœia, which is a faining a name from any kind of sound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1553
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