different between ideophone vs onomatopoeia

English

Etymology

James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.

Noun

ideophone (plural ideophones)

1. A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
   • 1969 October, William J. Samarin, The Art of Gbeya Insults, in International Journal of American Linguistics 35(4), page 325, JSTOR

     In insults the ideophone occurs either in its characteristic position, the verb phrase, or uncharacteristically as a modifier in a noun phrase.

Derived terms

• ideophonic

Translations

See also

• phonosemantic
• phonaesthesia
• onomatopoeia

English

Alternative forms

• onomatopeia, onomatopœia

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????????? (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”), from ???????????? (onomatopoié?, “to coin names”), from ????? (ónoma, “name”) + ????? (poié?, “to make, to do, to produce”).

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??n??mæt??pe??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n??mæt??pi??/
• (US) enPR: än'?-m?t'?-p??? or än'?-mät'?-p???, IPA^(key): /??n??mæt??pi??/, /??n??m?t??pi??/
• (US, chiefly Midwestern) IPA^(key): /??n??m?n??pi??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

onomatopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopoeias or onomatopoeiae)

1. (uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
2. (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
   1. (countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
3. (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

Synonyms

• echoism
• imitative harmony
• mimesis
• sound symbolism

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary's category of English onomatopoeias

Latin

Alternative forms

• onomatopoeïa

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????????????? (onomatopoií?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.no.ma.to?poe?.i.a/, [?n?mät???poe?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.no.ma.to?pe.i.a/, [?n?m?t???p??i?]

Noun

onomatopoeia f (genitive onomatopoeiae); first declension

1. (rhetoric) onomatopoeia (the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing that it signifies)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: onomatopée
• English: onomatopoeia
• Italian: onomatopea
• Portuguese: onomatopeia
• Spanish: onomatopeya

References

• ?n?m?t?poeïa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ?n?m?t?pœ?a in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,080/2
• onomatopoeia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “onomatopoeia” on page 1,250/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)