ἠχώ

See also: ηχώ and Ἠχώ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ᾱ̓χώ (ākhṓ) — Doric

Etymology

From ἠχή (ēkhḗ), ἦχος (êkhos, “sound”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.kʰɔ̌ː/ → /iˈxo/ → /iˈxo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.kʰɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝ˈkʰo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈxo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈxo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈxo/

Noun

ἠχώ • (ēkhṓ) f (genitive ἠχοῦς); third declension

1. echo, reflected sound
2. protracted sound

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἠχώ; τῆς ἠχοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ἠχώ hē ēkhṓ
Genitive	τῆς ἠχοῦς tês ēkhoûs
Dative	τῇ ἠχοῖ têi ēkhoî
Accusative	τὴν ἠχώ tḕn ēkhṓ
Vocative	ἠχοῖ ēkhoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: echo
• French: écho m
• Greek:
  • Modern Greek: ηχώ f (ichó)
  • Mariupol Greek: э́хо (éxo)
• Italian: eco
• Latin: echo
  • → Albanian: jeh
• Russian: э́хо (éxo)
• Spanish: eco m
• Swedish: eko

References

• “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.
  • blare idem, page 82.
  • echo idem, page 260.
  • flourish idem, page 329.
  • resonance idem, page 703.
  • reverberation idem, page 709.
  • sound idem, page 796.
  • voice idem, page 955.