eccho

English

Noun

eccho (plural ecchoes)

1. Obsolete spelling of echo.
   • 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler‎:

     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:

     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

• Checo

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ecco, ekko, ecko, echcho

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

• “eccō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2019.