echo

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Translingual

Noun

echo

1. Alternative letter-case form of Echo of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Alternative forms

• echoe (obsolete)
• eccho (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕkʹō
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
• Homophone: eco (Philippines)

Noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

   Hypernym: reverberation
2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
3. (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.
4. (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
5. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
6. (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
7. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
8. (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.
9. (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.
10. An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
11. (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
12. (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)

1. (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
3. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
4. (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
5. (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
6. (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Choe, oche, Cheo, HCEO, CHEO

Asturian

Verb

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛxo]

Noun

echo n

1. echo (reflected sound)

   Synonym: ozvěna

Declension

Further reading

• “echo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “echo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.xoː/
• Hyphenation: echo

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch echo, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”).

Noun

echo m (plural echo's, diminutive echootje n)

1. echo

   Synonym: weergalm

Derived terms

• echoën

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: èko, echo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

echo

1. inflection of echoën:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Ladino

Noun

echo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling איג׳ו)

1. work

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.kʰoː/, [ˈeːkʰoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ko/, [ˈɛːko]

Noun

ēchō f sg (genitive ēchūs); fourth declension

1. repercussion of sound, echo

   Synonym: imāgō f (pure Latin)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (all cases except the genitive singular in -ō), singular only.

• Only the nominative singular and the accusative singular ēchō and ēchōn are attested in ancient Latin.

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.

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish echo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.xɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛxɔ
• Syllabification: e‧cho
• Homophones: Echo, echo-

Noun

echo n (related adjective echowy)

1. echo (reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer)
2. (figurative) echo (reactions to phenomena and events that occurred earlier)
3. (figurative) echo (news that spreads fast)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• echo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• echo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

echo m (plural echos)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of eco.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈet͡ʃo/ [ˈe.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -etʃo
• Syllabification: e‧cho
• Homophone: hecho

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *iectus, from Latin iactus.

Noun

echo m (plural echos)

1. (obsolete) throw

   Synonyms: tiro, lanzamiento

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echar

Further reading

• “echo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10