Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ἠχώ • ‎(Ēkhṓ) f ‎(genitive Ἠχοῦς); mixed declension

1. Echo, a nymph in Greek mythology

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Ηχώ ‎(Ichó)
• Latin: Echo

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀχώ ‎(akhṓ) (Doric)

Noun

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

1. echo, reflected sound
2. protracted sound

Inflection

Descendants

• English: echo
• Greek: ηχώ f ‎(ichó)
• Italian: eco
• Latin: echo
• Russian: эхо ‎(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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blare idem, page 82.
  • echo idem, page 260.
  • Echo idem, page 1009.
  • flourish idem, page 329.
  • resonance idem, page 703.
  • reverberation idem, page 709.
  • sound idem, page 796.
  • voice idem, page 955.