The corpus record — Latin

echo

echo · f

repercussion of sound

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

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

What it meant

ēcho — Lewis & Short

ēcho, ūs, f., = h)xw/,

I repercussion of sound, echo (pure Lat. imago), Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 100; Pers. 1, 102; Aus. Mos. 297; id. Ep. 10, 23; 25, 68; Vulg. Sap. 17, 18.—Personified as a nymph, Ov. M. 3, 358 sq.; Aus. Epigr. 11, 7; 99, 1.

In the wild

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. écho (scan p. 660; entry #10947).

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.