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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Later form of ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound, noise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̂ː.kʰos/ → /ˈi.xos/ → /ˈi.xos/
Noun
ἦχος • (êkhos) m (genitive ἤχου); second declension
- sound, noise, ringing of the ears
- echo
- (grammar) breathing (i.e. aspiration; rough (δᾰσεῖᾰ) or smooth (ψῑλή))
- voice
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἦχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2279 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἦχος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften