different between onomatopoeia vs personification

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)

English

Etymology

person(ify) +? -ification.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

personification (countable and uncountable, plural personifications)

1. A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

   Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.

2. A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.

   The writer used personification to convey her ideas.

3. An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

   The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.

See also

• anthropomorphism
• humanization

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