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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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travesty
English
Etymology
From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) +? vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vesti? (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of transvest.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?v??s-t?, tr?v??s-t?, IPA(key): /?t?æv.?s.ti/, /?t?æv.?s.ti/
- Hyphenation: trav?es?ty
Noun
travesty (plural travesties)
- An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.
- 1845, Thomas De Quincey, William Godwin
- The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.
- 1845, Thomas De Quincey, William Godwin
- A parody or stylistic imitation.
- (derogatory) A grossly inferior imitation.
- A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice.
- (colloquial, proscribed) An appalling version of something.
Synonyms
- caricature
- feign
Antonyms
- veracity
Related terms
Translations
Verb
travesty (third-person singular simple present travesties, present participle travestying, simple past and past participle travestied)
- (transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.
Further reading
- travesty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- travesty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- travesty at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “travesty”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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