cacophonia

English

Noun

cacophonia

  1. (chiefly obsolete) Alternative form of cacophony.
    • 1801, Jonathan Swift, ‎Thomas Sheridan, ‎John Nichols, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift (page 281)
      […] for I will put no force upon the words, nor desire any more favour than to allow for the usual accidents of corruption, or the avoiding a cacophonia.
    • 1959, Soviet Literature, numbers 9-12, page 21:
      The craze for Cacophonia spread rapidly, and soon there were several orchestras that played only on broken-down and out-of-tune instruments.

Latin

Noun

cacophōnia f (genitive cacophōniae); first declension

  1. cacophony (disagreeable sound formed by the meeting of syllables or words)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cacophōnia cacophōniae
genitive cacophōniae cacophōniārum
dative cacophōniae cacophōniīs
accusative cacophōniam cacophōniās
ablative cacophōniā cacophōniīs
vocative cacophōnia cacophōniae

References

  • “cacophonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cacophonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cacophonia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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