Dictionary

onomatopoeic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌɒnəmætəˈpiːɪk/
• /ˌɒnəmɛtəˈpiːək/ (New-Zealand)
• /-ˈpæeək/ (New-Zealand)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Hellenic *ónomə Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă) Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-der. Proto-Hellenic *kʷoiwéyō Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιός (onomătopoiós) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ (onomătopoiĭ́ā)der. Latin onomatopoeïabor. English onomatopoeia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English onomatopoeic From onomatopoeia + -ic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to onomatopoeia.
2. (not-comparable) Having the property of onomatopoeia.
   • Some of them are onomatopoeic like hrududu (which is a car), but overall they simply came from my subconscious. 2014 December 14, Richard Adams, “Richard Adams Reddit AMA”, in Interviewly, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2017:
   • There are also three ways in which katakana is used for writing Japanese words: 1 to make words stand out, for example, in advertising: トヨタ (Toyota) 2 to classify species of plants and animals, for example in botanical gardens 3 to write onomatopoeic words 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31:

Forms

Deriveds

onomatopoeically

Hypernyms

sound-symbolic · imitative

Synonyms

echoic · imitative · phonomimetic · mimetic · onomatopoetic · onomatopoeial

Translations (63)

sq onomatopeik (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · fr onomatopéique (having the property of onomatopoeia) · it onomatopeico (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · el ηχομιμητικός (having the property of onomatopoeia) · gl onomatopeico (having the property of onomatopoeia) · nl onomatopoëtisch (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · cy onomatopëig (having the property of onomatopoeia) · sv ljudhärmande (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · ca onomatopeic (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · ru ономатопоэтический (having the property of onomatopoeia) · gl onomatopeico (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · it onomatopeico (having the property of onomatopoeia) · ro onomatopeic (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · it fonosimbolico (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · fr onomatopéique (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · de onomatopoetisch (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · pl dźwiękonaśladowczy (having the property of onomatopoeia) · pl dźwiękonaśladowczy (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · de lautmalend (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · pt onomatopaico (having the property of onomatopoeia) · nl klanknabootsend (having the property of onomatopoeia) · sq tingullimitues (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · pt onomatópico (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · vi tượng thanh (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · gv arrish-ockleeagh (having the property of onomatopoeia) · de onomatopoetisch (having the property of onomatopoeia) · vi tượng thanh (having the property of onomatopoeia) · fi onomatopoeettinen (having the property of onomatopoeia) · pt onomatopeico (having the property of onomatopoeia) · pl onomatopeiczny (having the property of onomatopoeia) · ru ономатопический (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · el ηχομιμητικός (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · da onomatopoietisk (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · nl onomatopoëtisch (having the property of onomatopoeia) · de lautmalerisch (having the property of onomatopoeia) · ro onomatopeic (having the property of onomatopoeia) · hu hangutánzó (having the property of onomatopoeia) · fi onomatopoeettinen (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · sk onomatopoický (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · ru ономатопический (having the property of onomatopoeia) · pt onomatópico (having the property of onomatopoeia) · hu onomatopoétikus (having the property of onomatopoeia) · da onomatopoietisk (having the property of onomatopoeia) · la onomatopoēticus (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · ru звукоподража́тельный (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · sv onomatopoetisk (having the property of onomatopoeia) · ru ономатопоэтический (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · pt onomatopaico (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · eo onomatopea (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · pl onomatopeiczny (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · es onomatopéyico (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · pt onomatopeico (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · de lautmalerisch (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · sv onomatopoetisk (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · cy onomatopëig (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · gv arrish-ockleeagh (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · fo ljóðhermandi (having the property of onomatopoeia) · da lydefterlignende (having the property of onomatopoeia) · fo ljóðhermandi (of or relating to onomatopoeia) · eo onomatopea (having the property of onomatopoeia) · sv ljudhärmande (having the property of onomatopoeia) · es onomatopéyico (having the property of onomatopoeia) · de lautmalend (having the property of onomatopoeia)