ἠχώ
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom ἠχή (ēkhḗ), ἦχος (êkhos, “sound”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛː.kʰɔ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e̝ˈkʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈxo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈxo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈxo/
Noun
editἠχώ • (ēkhṓ) f (genitive ἠχοῦς); third declension
Inflection
editDescendants
edit- English: echo
- French: écho m
- Greek:
- Italian: eco
- Latin: echo
- → Albanian: jeh
- Russian: э́хо (éxo)
- Spanish: eco m
- Swedish: eko
References
edit- “ἠχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἠχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἠχώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.