Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound. · Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate. · To reflect back (a sound). · To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. · An utterance repeating what has just been said. · A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line. · Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-der. Proto-Hellenic *wākʰā́ Ancient Greek ἠχή (ēkhḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Ancient Greek -ώ (-ṓ) Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ)bor. Latin ēchō Medieval Latin ēccōbor. Middle English eccho English echo From Middle English eccho, ecco, echo, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.
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