Echo

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Middle English: from Old French or Latin, from Greek ēkhō, related to ēkhē ‘a sound’.


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


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echo (n.)

mid-14c., "sound repeated by reflection," from Latin echo, from Greek echo, personified in classical mythology as a mountain nymph who pined away for love of Narcissus until nothing was left of her but her voice, from or related to ekhe "sound," ekhein "to resound," from PIE *wagh-io-, extended form of root *(s)wagh- "to resound" (source also of Sanskrit vagnuh "sound," Latin vagire "to cry," Old English swogan "to resound"). Related: Echoes. Echo chamber attested from 1937.




echo (v.)

1550s (intrans.), c. 1600 (trans.), from echo (n.). Related: Echoed; echoing.