eccho

eccho

English

Noun

eccho (plural ecchoes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of echo.
    • 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler‎[1]:
      Farwel ye guilded follies, pleasing troubles, Farwel ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow eccho, gold pure clay, Honour the darling but of one short day.
    • 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia‎[2]:
      And suddainly hearing the fall of trees, through the force of a whyrlewinde, & noise of the broken bowghes, with a redoubled and hoarse sound a farre of, and yet brought to the eccho of the water thorow the thick wood, I grew into a new astonishment.

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈɛkoː/

    Noun

    eccho (uncountable)

    1. Echoing, reverberation.
    2. A favourable response made to flatter someone.

    Descendants

    • English: echo
    • Scots: echo

    References

    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.