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onomatopœic

onomatopœic is the archaic spelling of onomatopoeic.

Meaning of onomatopoeic

Adjective

onomatopoeic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to onomatopoeia.
  2. Having the property of onomatopoeia.
    • There are also three ways in which katakana is used for writing Japanese words:
      1 to make words stand out, for example, in advertising: トヨタ (Toyota)
      2 to classify species of plants and animals, for example in botanical gardens
      3 to write onomatopoeic words2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31

Words formed from onomatopœic

Questions about onomatopœic

What is onomatopœic the archaic spelling of?
Onomatopœic is the archaic spelling of onomatopoeic.

Words near onomatopœic in the dictionary

  1. onomatopoietically
  2. onomatopoietics
  3. onomatopy
  4. onomatopœia
  5. onomatopœias
  6. onomatopœic
  7. onomatopœical
  8. onomatopœically
  9. onomomancy
  10. onomotopoetically
  11. Onondaga

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onomatopœic (page history and authors); onomatopoeic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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