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1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Summer. The Second Pastoral, or Alexis.”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part., London: Jacob Tonson, Where you may have the five former parts.">…], →OCLC, page 732:
To you I mourn; nor to the Deaf I ſing, / The Woods ſhall anſwer, and their Echo ring.
“Then what is your little trouble?” “My little trouble!” I felt that this sort of thing must be stopped at its source. It was only ten minutes to dressing-for-dinner time, and we could go on along these lines for hours. “Listen, old crumpet,” I said patiently. “Make up your mind whether you are my old friend Reginald Herring or an echo in the Swiss mountains. If you're simply going to repeat every word I say –”
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 11:
The frustration with the political process that in the '60s led to the formation of resistance groups finds an echo in today's increasingly confrontational tactics.
When someone asks an off-topic question they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.
(whist,bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
(whist,bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:
The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene.
1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis., London: Jacob Tonson,, →OCLC:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
His views were echoed by The Economist, which feared that the effects of modernisation would be no more than “chromium-plated” inefficiency caused by unimaginative railway management and adverse union reaction.
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Only the nominative singular and the accusative singular ēchō and ēchōn are attested in ancient Latin.
References
^ Sjökvist, Peter (2012) The Music Theory of Harald Vallerius - Three Dissertations from 17th-century Sweden, page 221:
The Greek feminines ending in ώ, like ἠχώ, have no plural forms (Jannaris 1987, §410–411). The Latin genitive echus (ἠχοῦς) and the accusative echo (ἠχώ), are thus in accordance with the form in Classical ancient Greek. In neo-Latin echo was treated in various more- or less-fanciful ways, while in ancient Latin the word is only attested in the singular nominative echo and the singular accusatives echo and echon (TLL). As can be seen, Vallerius here uses the form echo as a plural nominative, but such a form cannot be attested, neither in handbooks of the period, nor in modern lexica. For instance, Noltenius (col. 54) writes: ECHO, -us, per unum C, thus only stressing that the word should be spelled with one c. The same genitive form echus is given in L&S, Krebs & Schmalz, JPG, BFS, Matthiae, while OLD and TLL only account for the nominative and accusative singular (echo and echo or echon). In Kircher (1650, vol. II, p. 246) we find on the same page both the singular genitive form echus, the dative echoni and the accusative echum, as well as the plural nominative echo (sunt Echo debiles et languidae). Later on, however, we also meet the plural nominative echi in Echi sursum et deorsum reverberantes (Kircher 1650, vol. II, p. 250), as well als the genitive Echonis and the ablative Echone (p. 264). Vallerius himself, however, has the ablative Echo in thesis 67, and a genitive Echo in thesis 82 below.
Further reading
“echo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
echo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.