LOGOI

The corpus record

ἦχος

echos · ὁ

sound, ringing in the ears, echo

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
  • Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
  • Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
  • Daniel (LXX) 3 · 2.86/10k
  • Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
  • Psalmi 5 · 1.46/10k
  • Jeremias 3 · 1.08/10k
  • Regnorum I 2 · 1.08/10k
  • Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
  • Acts 1 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

sound, ringing in the ears

later form of ἠχή, Arist. Aud. 804a30, Theoc. 27.57, Ep.Hebr. 12.19, Ael. Tact. 35.3, etc.; τεττίγων λιγὺν ἦ. Call. Aet. Oxy. 2079.29 (ἧχον Pap.) [Fr. 1.29 Pf.]; παγᾶς Mosch. Fr. 1.12; αὐλοῦ Id. 2.98; οἱ τῶν πριόνων ἦχοι A.D. Synt. 290.24; of the sound of words, opp. sense, Phld. Rh. 2.258S.; ἦχοι καὶ ψόφοι ib. 1.150S.; τῆς φωνῆς ὁ ἦ. ἐν ταῖς ἀκοαῖς παραμένει Luc. Nigr. 7; γραμμάτων Demetr. Eloc. 71; ἦ. ἐν ὠσί, or abs., ἦχοι, ἦχος, ringing in the ears, Hp. Coac. 189, 190, Prorrh. 1.18, Thphr. Se

2 echo

echo, Arist. Pr. 899b30.

3 breathing

Gramm., breathing, ἦχοι ὁ μὲν δασύς, ὁ δὲ ψιλός Demetr. Eloc. 73.

4 voice

voice, τὸν ἦ. εὔτονον καὶ λαμπρὸν ἀποτελεῖ Dsc. 5.17. (ἦχος, τό, is found in LXX Je. 28(51).16, dub. in Ev.Luc. 21.25.)

In the wild

6 of 30 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Ask the librarian

Ask about ἦχος →