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‖ onomatopœia|əʊˌnɒmətəʊˈpiːjə, ˌɒnəʊmæt-|
[a. L. onomatopœia, a. Gr. ὀνοµατοποιία the making of words, f. ὀνοµατοποιός making or coining a name, f. onomato- + -ποιος making.]
1. The formation of a name or word by an imitation of the sound associated with the thing or action designated; this principle as a force in the formation of words in a language; echoism.
1577Peacham Gard. Eloquence, Onomatopeia, when we invent, devise, fayne, and make a name intimating the sound of that it signifieth, as hurlyburly, for an uprore and tumultuous stirre. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvi[i.]. (Arb.) 192 Onomatopeia, or the New namer. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 72 Onomatopœia..Nominis seu nominum fictio, the feigning of a name or names. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., The surest etymologies are those deduced from the onomatopœia. 1852H. Spencer Philos. Style Ess. 1891 II. 338 That frequent cause of strength in Saxon and other primitive words—their onomatopoeia. 1861Max Müller Sci. Lang. 346 If this principle of onomatopoieia is applicable anywhere it would be in the names of animals. 1870Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. ix. (1875) 410 Without..supposing..that all our root-words have originated from onomatopeia.
b. A word formed by this process; a word imitating the sound of the thing or action which it signifies.
1842Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. etc., Onomatopœia..a word expressing by its sound the thing represented. 1845Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. I. 179/1 Hout! seems to be an onomatopoeia of the same nature as the English verb, to hoot. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vii. 120 We call such words ‘onomatopœias’, literally ‘name-makings’, because the Greeks did so.
2. Rhetoric. The use of naturally suggestive words, sentences, and forms for rhetorical effect.
1860Tennyson in Mem. (1897) II. 519 A good instance of onomatopœia in ‘Paradise Lost’ (Bk. II. 879) ‘On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus’. 1895E. S. Phelps Chap. fr. Life iii. 48 As much taken aback as if he had found a tribe of Cherokees studying onomatopoeia in English verse.
Hence oˌnomatoˈpœial a., of or pertaining to (rhetorical) onomatopœia; oˌnomatoˈpœian a., onomatopœic; n., an onomatope; † oˌnomatoˈpœious a. Obs. rare—0 (see quot.).
1880Academy 28 Feb. 153/1 The technique of such work is irreproachable; the onomatopoeial sense of sound is most discriminative. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. 108 An onomatopœian which gives rise to a large number of cognate words in the Indo-European languages. 1867Athenæum 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. 1661Blount Onomatopeious, pertaining to the Figure Onomatopœia, which is a faining a name from any kind of sound. |