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echo
English
Alternative forms
- echoe (obsolete)
- eccho (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?), from ??? (?kh?, “sound”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?k??
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??ko?/
- Rhymes: -?k??
Noun
echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (figuratively) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
- 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, Will o' the Mill
- Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- Echo, the letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)
- (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off a surface and return.
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
- 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year, Christmas Day
- The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
- (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:imitate
Translations
Anagrams
- Choe, HCEO, oche
Asturian
Verb
echo
- first-person singular present indicative of echar
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xo/
Noun
echo n
- echo (reflected sound)
Synonyms
- ozv?na
Further reading
- echo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- echo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.xo?/
- Hyphenation: echo
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch echo, from Latin ?ch?, from Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?), from ??? (?kh?, “sound”).
Noun
echo m (plural echo's, diminutive echootje n)
- echo
- Synonym: weergalm
Derived terms
- echoën
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
echo
- first-person singular present indicative of echoën
- imperative of echoën
Ladino
Noun
echo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ??????)
- work
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?e?.k?o?/, [?e?k?o?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?e.ko/, [???k?]
Noun
?ch? f (genitive ?ch?s); fourth declension
- echo
Declension
Fourth-declension noun (nominative/vocative singular in -?).
Other forms:
- Accusative singular ?ch? and ?ch?n; only these forms and the nominative singular are attested in ancient Latin, not the other forms mentioned above.
References
- echo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- echo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- echo in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[1]
- echo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- echo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.x?/
Noun
echo n
- echo
Declension
Portuguese
Noun
echo m (plural echos)
- Obsolete spelling of eco (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?et??o/, [?e.t??o]
- Homophone: hecho
- Rhymes: -et?o
Verb
echo
- First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of echar.
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echt
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kt/
Adjective
echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)
- proper, real, genuine, true to type
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, p.8
- I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, p.8
Translations
Anagrams
- Chet, Tech., chet, etch, hect-, tech
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xt/
- Hyphenation: echt
- Rhymes: -?xt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *?haft, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft.
Adjective
echt (comparative echter, superlative echtst)
- authentic, true, genuine, real
- Synonyms: waar, heus
- Antonyms: onecht, nep, vals
Inflection
Derived terms
- echtheid
- onecht
- in het echt
Descendants
- Afrikaans: eg
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
echt m (uncountable)
- The institution marriage, matrimony.
- Synonym: huwelijk
Derived terms
- echtelijk
- echtgelofte
- echtgenoot
- echtscheiding
German
Alternative forms
- ächt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”). The original form is Middle Low German ?haft (“lawful”), from ? (“law”) (related to modern Ehe); then ?hacht by the Low German development -ft- ? -cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ?haft (“honourable”) and Dutch echt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?çt/
- Rhymes: -?çt
Adjective
echt (comparative echter, superlative am echtesten)
- authentic, genuine, true
- (chiefly colloquial) real; factual
- Synonyms: wirklich, tatsächlich
- (mathematics) proper
Declension
Synonyms
- (real): wirklich
Derived terms
- echtgolden
- Echtheit
- echt jetzt
- echtsilbern
- in echt
- waschecht
Descendants
- ? English: echt
Adverb
echt
- (chiefly colloquial) really; indeed
Synonyms
- wirklich
Further reading
- “echt” in Duden online
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- what is echt apparel
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