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synecdoche
English
Alternative forms
- syndoche
- synechdoche
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin synecdoch?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??n?k.d?.ki/, /s??n?k.do?.ki/
Noun
synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.
- Hyponyms: pars pro toto, totum pro parte
- Hypernym: metonymy
- 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:
- "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.
- (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.
- Synonym: synecdochy
Usage notes
Technically, a synecdoche is a part of the referent while a metonym is connected or associated but not necessarily a part of it.
Derived terms
Related terms
- docetism
- meronymy
Translations
See also
- metaphor
- metonymy
Further reading
- synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sin?k?do?x?/
Noun
synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)
- (literature) synecdoche
See also
- metonymia
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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)
- (uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
- (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
- (countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
- (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
- (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)
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