onomatopoeiae

English

Noun

onomatopoeiae

1. (rare) plural of onomatopoeia
   • 1912, Henri Alexandre Junod, The life of a South African tribe (Neuchatel: Attinger) p. 146 fn (1)

     Nor can I approve of the term employed by Torrend : onomatopoetic substantives. Substantives they are certainly not, as they pertain to none of the eight classes and have nothing of the nature of nouns. On the other hand, only a part of them are real onomatopoeiae, i. e. words resembling the sound made by the thing of which they are the names.

   • 1943, Henry George Farmer, Saʾadyah Gaon on the Influence of Music, London: A. Probsthain, page 76:

     Al-Khwarizmi, who follows Al-Farabi's definitions slavishly, introduces but two onomatopoeiae tan and tanna to represent relatively, it would seem, ˘ and ¯.

Latin

Noun

onomatopoeiae

1. inflection of onomatopoeia:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular