The examples Quintilian gives, however, are all of what would be termed onomatopoeias in our time, words coined to refer to a sound while also mimicking it: they are " mugitus, lowing,
sibilus, a hiss, and murmur." (6) For the Elizabethan rhetorician George Puttenham, onomatopoeia is "the New namer"; (7) Puttenham is explicit that the newly-minted word should be "consonant" to the nature of its object, and gives a list of onomatopoeic representations of sounds as illustrations: "as the poet Virgil said of the sounding of a trumpet, ta-ra-tant, taratantara, or as we give special names to the voices of dombe beasts, as to say, a horse neigheth, a lion brayes, a swine grunts, a hen cackleth, a dogge howles, and a hundred mo.
