echo
/ˈekəʊ/EH-koh
/ˈɛkoʊ/EH-koh
Meaninga sound
Common meaning: a reflected sound
- echa sound, echoLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 658 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√WAK‘cry out’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 333, p. 742 · scan
- Greekἠχώ‘a sound, echo’
- Latinecho
- Englishecho‘a reflected sound’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
- No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
- No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.
Origin: Built on Greek ἠχώ ‘a sound, echo’.
Roots
- ἠχώ Greek “a sound, echo”
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