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cacoepy

Meaning of "cacoepy" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CACOEPY

From Greek kakoepeia.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CACOEPY

kəˈkəʊɪpɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CACOEPY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cacoepy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CACOEPY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cacoepy in the English dictionary

The definition of cacoepy in the dictionary is bad or mistaken pronunciation.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CACOEPY

chippy · clippie · flippy · gippy · gossipy · hippie · hippy · Mississippi · precipe · recipe · scrapie · skippy · slippy · snippy · stripy · tippy · trippy · typy · whippy · zippy

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CACOEPY

cacodaemon · cacodemon · cacodemonic · cacodoxy · cacodyl · cacodylic · cacoepistic · cacoethes · cacoethic · cacogastric · cacogenic · cacogenics · cacographer · cacographic · cacographical · cacography · cacolet · cacology · cacomistle · cacomixl

WORDS THAT END LIKE CACOEPY

canopy · copy · creepy · crepy · flappy · happy · occupy · orthoepy · physical therapy · poppy · puppy · py · seepy · sheepy · sleepy · spy · sweepy · therapy · unhappy · weepy

Synonyms and antonyms of cacoepy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cacoepy» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CACOEPY

Find out the translation of cacoepy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cacoepy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cacoepy» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

发音不准
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

cacoepy
570 millions of speakers
en

English

cacoepy
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

cacoepy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cacoepy
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

cacoepy
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

cacoepy
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

cacoepy
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

cacoepy
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Cacoepy
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

cacoepy
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

cacoepy
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

cacoepy
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Cacoepy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cacoepy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான உச்சரிப்பு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कोकोसी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

cacoepy
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

cacoepy
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

cacoepy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

cacoepy
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

cacoepy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cacoepy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cacoepy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cacoepy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cacoepy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cacoepy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CACOEPY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cacoepy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CACOEPY»

Discover the use of cacoepy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cacoepy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Roget's Thesaurus:
[Word similarly pronounced] homonym. orthoepy†; cacoepy†; euphony &c. ( melody) 413. gastriloquism†, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism†, polyphonist†. [Science of voice] phonology &c. (sound) 402. V. utter, breathe; give utterance, ...
Dr. Peter Mark Roget
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Buffalo Medical Journal
If the term be sought for in the dictionaries of the present, the search will be in vain ; but unless we reform our pronunciation of medical nomenclature, cacoepy will be an imperative necessity in the bright lexicon of the future. Cacoepy, then, is ...
3
Glossology: Being a Treatise on the Nature of Language, and ...
... the following list, containing the latter combinations, is given, as sufficient as sufficient to prove the point in question, to every mind that is free from the tyranny of the prevailing cacoepy of Latin. In the Celtic and the ancient Teutic dialects, the  ...
Charles V. Kraitsir, 1852
4
The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary: ...
... (BR) bate-papo m; c vi (hen) cacarejar; 2 (person) tagarelar. cacky adj (coll) sujo,-a, vil, sem valor ou gosto. cacodemon n espírito m mau, demónio, m. cacoepy n cacoépiaf. cacoethes n maniaf, vício m. cacophony n balbúrdia f; cacofonia.
Maria F. Allen, 2011
5
LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (THE DIVINE COMEDY) : Inferno
Plutus began to cluck; my noble sage, Omniscient in such cacoepy, 3 Said, to allay me: “Harmless is his rage – Fear not: whatever power he may wield, He'll not impede us, down this scarp's passage.” 6 T hen, toward that puffed-up, angry face ...
Paul S. Bruckman, 2011
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Etymidion II: A Students' Workbook for Vocabulary Building
... in Westminster] 9 . autacoid 10 . Eurydice 11. idiot 12. place 13. panoply 14 . panegyric 15. protocol 16. cholesterol 17. phylloxera 18 . xerox 19. barium 20. coenurus 21. autochthonous 22. cacoepy 23. oxymoron 24. coenosarc 25. etymon ...
C. A. E. Luschnig, L. J. Luschnig, 1994
7
Pocket Posh Word Power: 120 Words to Make You Sound Intelligent
... strength; energy. dynamic, dynamite, dynamo, dynasty Repeated sound. echolocation, echolalia, echopraxia epi- . . . . . . . . -escent. Bad; poor; harsh. cacoepy, cacoethes, cacography, cacophony Death. mortal, mortgage, mortician, mortuary.
Wordnik, Angela Tung, 2011
8
Occultus Liber: A Novel by Neil Baker
His tongue appeared to be getting in the way of his words, in an infallible act of chewing cacoepy. But clearly, words broke off as with a cleaver. The mind did indeed barely escape the second power. “I'll be damned in plain iblees if he will ...
Neil Baker, 2014
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Dictionary of Lexicography
cacoA COMBINING FORM (< Greek 'bad') used to suggest 'incorrect' or ' inappropriate' usage, e.g. caconym 'a taxonomic name that is objectionable for sociolinguistic reasons'. cacoepy A pronunciation which is considered incorrect.
R. R. K. Hartmann, Gregory James, 2002
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Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate
In both cases, the track points at the stress of unnoticed sounds in technological environments. On 0°C Ikeda is less minimal in terms of sound, if not in terms of exploring distinctive features one at a time. "Cacoepy," with its decomposed ...
Christopher J. Washburne, Maiken Derno, 2004
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cacoepy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cacoepy>. May 2024 ».
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