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onomasticon noun, linguistics a dictionary or collection of proper names, especially personal ones.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c: from Greek onomastikos relating to names, from onoma a name.
onomastics singular noun, linguistics the study of the history, development and geographical distribution of proper names, including eg personal first names and surnames, place names, home names, and the names of boats, trains and pets.
ETYMOLOGY: 1930s.
onomatopoeia noun 1 the formation of words whose sounds imitate the sound or action they represent, eg boo, hiss, squelch. 2 a word formed in this way. 3 rhetoric the use, for rhetorical effect, of words whose sounds help to suggest their meaning. onomatopoeic adj imitative. onomatopoeically adverb.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: Latin, from Greek onomatopoios, from onoma name + poiein to make.
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