Can Onomatopoeia Be Plural?
The Oed Does Allow 'Onomatopoeia' as a Countable Noun, Offering the Following as Its Second Definition: One Quotation from 1875 Has the Plural as...
The OED does allow 'onomatopoeia' as a countable noun, offering the following as its second definition: One quotation from 1875 has the plural as 'onomatopoeias'. However, the preferred word for 'a word formed by onomatopoeia' is 'onomatope' (plural 'onomatopes').
How do you make onomatopoeia plural?
The noun onomatopoeia can be countable or uncountable. In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will be onomatopoeias. However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be onomatopoeiae e.g. in reference to various types of onomatopoeiae or a collection of onomatopoeiae.
Can onomatopoeia be two words?
What Is Onomatopoeia? The word onomatopoeia comes from the combination of two Greek words, onoma meaning "name" and poiein meaning "to make," so onomatopoeia literally means "to make a name (or sound)." That is to say that the word means nothing more than the sound it makes.
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