英语词汇echo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	echo
词源	echo n. mid-14c., "sound repeated by reflection," from Latin echo, from Greek ēkhō, personified in classical mythology as a mountain nymph who pined away for love of Narcissus until nothing was left of her but her voice, from or related to ēkhē "sound," ēkhein "to resound," from PIE wagh-io-, extended form of root (s)wagh- "to resound" (source also of Sanskrit vagnuh "sound," Latin vagire "to cry," Old English swogan "to resound"). Related: Echoes. Echo chamber is attested from 1937. echo v. 1550s (intrans.), c. 1600 (trans.), from echo (n.). Related: Echoed; echoing. Entries linking to echo re-echo v. "to echo back, sound back or reverberate again," 1580s, from re- "back, again" + echo (v.). Related: Re-echoed; re-echoing. catechesis n. "oral instruction, catechism," 1753, from Latinized form of Greek katēkhesis "instruction by word of mouth," from katēkhein "to instruct orally," originally "to resound" (with sense evolution via "to sound (something) in someone's ear" to "to teach by word of mouth"). This is from kata "down" (in this case, "thoroughly;" see cata-) + ēkhein "to sound, ring," from ēkhē "sound" (see echo (n.)). re-echo (v.)catechesis (n.)chechoic (adj.)echolalia (n.)echolocation (n.)echopraxia (n.) updated on November 13, 2022
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