ŏnŏmătŏpoeïa — Lewis & Short
ŏnŏmătŏpoeïa, ae, f., = o)nomatopoii/+a,
I the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing it signifies, onomatopée, Charis. p. 245 P.
The corpus record — Latin
onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia · f
the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing it signifies
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Where it lives
- Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- onomatopoeia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.30
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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