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oˈnomato- = Gr. ὀνοµατο-, combining form of ὄνοµα, ὀνόµατ-ος name: the first element of numerous derivatives: see below. ˌonomatoˈmania Path. [Gr. µανία madness], (a) ‘morbid dread of some word, intense mental anguish at the inability to recall some word or to name a thing’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1892); (b) a morbid preoccupation with words; a mania for word-making. oˈnomatoˌplasm [Gr. πλάσµα form], a word formed by onomatopœia.
1895tr. M. Nordau's Degeneration iii. i. 242 Trichophobia (fear of hair), onomatomania (folly of words or names), pyromania (incendiary madness). 1919W. Osler in Proc. Classical Assoc. 28 Within the narrow compass of the primitive cell..onomatomania runs riot. |