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ἠχ-έω

echeo

sound, ring, peal

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Where it lives

  • Ruth 1 · 5.21/10k
  • Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
  • Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
  • 1 Corinthians 1 · 1.48/10k
  • Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Jeremias 4 · 1.44/10k
  • Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
  • Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
  • Isaias 3 · 1.14/10k
  • Regnorum I 2 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

I sound, ring, peal, chirp, tingle, an echo

intr., sound, ring, peal, ἠχεῖ δὲ κάρη . . Ὀλύμπου Hes. Th. 42; ὅταν ἀχήσῃ πολιὸς βυθός Mosch. Fr. 1.4; ἀχοῦσι προσπόλων χέρες E. Supp. 72 (lyr.); of metal, ἠχέεσκε ὁ χαλκὸς τῆς ἀσπίδος Hdt. 4.200; τὰ χαλκία πληγέντα μακρὸν ἠχεῖ Pl. Prt. 329a, cf. Men. 66.4; of the grasshopper, chirp, Alc. 39, Theoc. 16.96; of the ears, tingle, ἠχήσει τὰ ὦτα LXX 1 Ki. 3.11; διὰ τί ἠχεῖ ἢ διὰ τί ἐμφαίνεται; impers., of an echo, Arist. APo. 98a27.

2 suffer from noises in the ears

suffer from noises in the ears, Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 10.40.3.

II to let, sound, sound, to sound, is made

c. acc. cogn., ἀχεῖν (ἰαχεῖν codd.) ὕμνον to let it sound, A. Th. 869 (lyr.); κωκυτόν S. Tr. 866; γόους Id. Fr. 523; ὕμνους E. Ion 883 (lyr.); χαλκέον ἄχει sound the cymbal! Theoc. 2.36; ἐφεξῆς ἠχοῦντα αὐτά (sc. τὰ φωνήεντα) Demetr. Eloc. 71: —Med., ἀχεῖσθαί τινα to sound his praises, dub. in Pi. Fr. 75.19:— Pass., ἠχεῖται κτύπος a sound is made, S. OC 1500. (Cf. sq.)

In the wild

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Where it came from

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