onomatopoetic, a.
(əʊˌnɒmətəʊpəʊˈɛtɪk)
Also onomatopoietic.
[f. Gr. ὀνοµατοποίησις, after poetic.]
= onomatopœic.
| 1848 Craig, Onomatopoetic, formed to resemble the sound of the thing signified. 1860 Farrar Orig. Lang. (1865) 17 Are not children invariably onomatopoetic? 1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta I. 100 The horn and the tomtom..express to them a great complication of ideas by onomatopoetic language. 1883 Q. Rev. Jan. 177 An onomatopoietic explanation. |