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Echo Latin Greek Related Mountain Nymph Love Narcissus

正面 3448.echo
英 ['ekəʊ]美 ['ɛko]

背面
释义:
vt. 反射;重复vi. 随声附和;发出回声n. 回音;效仿
例句:
1. Pinks and beiges were chosen to echo the colours of the ceiling.选用了粉红色和米色,以跟从天花板的颜色。

1. con- "together" + -tinu- + -ous.2. => keep together, uninterrupted.
echo 回声来自PIE*wagh, 回声,回响,词源同catechism, 教义问答。
echoecho: [14] Echo comes via Old French or Latin from Greek ēkhó, a word related to ēkhé ‘sound’. It may have originated as a personification of the concept ‘sound’, which developed eventually into the mythological mountain nymph Echo, who faded away for love of Narcissus until nothing but her voice was left. (The Greek verb derived from ēkhé, ēkhein, is the ultimate source of English catechism.)=> catechismecho (n.)mid-14c., "sound repeated by reflection," from Latin echo, from Greek echo, 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 ekhe "sound," ekhein "to resound," from PIE *wagh-io-, extended form of root *(s)wagh- "to resound" (cognates: Sanskrit vagnuh "sound," Latin vagire "to cry," Old English swogan "to resound"). Related: Echoes. Echo chamber attested from 1937.echo (v.)1550s (intrans.), c. 1600 (trans.), from echo (n.). Related: Echoed; echoing."

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