echo

• echoe (obsolete)
• eccho (obsolete)

From Middle English ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”).

• enPR: ĕ'kō
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkəʊ

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

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

     The babbling echo mocks the hounds.

   • Alexander Pope

     The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     “Then what is your little trouble?” “My little trouble!” I felt that this sort of thing must be stopped at its source. It was only ten minutes to dressing-for-dinner time, and we could go on along these lines for hours. “Listen, old crumpet,” I said patiently. “Make up your mind whether you are my old friend Reginald Herring or an echo in the Swiss mountains. If you're simply going to repeat every word I say –”

   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:

     Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

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. (figuratively) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
   • Fuller

     Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.

   • Robert Louis Stevenson

     Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

5. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
6. The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
7. (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.
8. (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.
9. (medicine, colloquial) Echocardiography or echocardiogram.

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

1. (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off a surface and return.
2. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Keble

     The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.

3. (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
   • 2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

   Sid echoed his father's point of view.

4. (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
   • 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy

     The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

• Choe, oche

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echar

• IPA^(key): /ɛxo/

echo n

1. echo (reflected sound)

• ozvěna

• echo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• echo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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

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

1. echo

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echoën
2. imperative of echoën

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

1. work

From Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.kʰoː/

ēchō f (genitive ēchūs); fourth declension

1. echo

Fourth declension, dative plural in -ibus.

Other forms:

• Accusative singular -ōn (ēchōn).

• 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
• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.xɔ/

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echo n

1. echo

echo m (plural echos)

1. Obsolete spelling of eco (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

• IPA^(key): /ˈet͡ʃo/
• Homophone: hecho
• Rhymes: -etʃo

echo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of echar.