English → Latin
“Echo” in Latin
ēchōrepercussion of sound, echoresonōto sound or ring again, resound, reecho; call repeatedly; to give back the sound of, resound, reecho withrepercutiōto rebound, reflect; to reverberate, resoundreciprocusback and forth; alternating; reciprocalremittōto send back, to remit, to throw back, restore; to forgive, free one from any thing; to give up, reject, yield, resign,
The English word Echo itself goes back to Latin ēchō, through ēccō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
Echo
Echo, -us (f.)
echo
vocis imago (Echo, G. Echus, poetical; rare in, prose, Plin.): resonantia (Vitr.): sonus relatus: vox resiliens, repercussa, or reciproca (the sound echoed back). The clear echos of the valley, vallis argutiae, Col. 9, 5, 6, who adds quas Graeci ἡχούς vocant). To return an echo, Vid: to ECHO]. A place where there is an echo or echos, locus ubi resonant imagines; locus clamoribus repercussus: where there is a clear echo, locus argutus (Vid: Voss, Verg., Ecl., 8, 22): where there is a gentle or low echo, locus, in quo leniter se applicat vox: where there is an indistinct echo, locus, in quo vox repulsa resiliens incertas auribus refert significationes: a place where there is no echo, locus ubi non resonant imagines. To return a repeated echo, voces acceptas numerosiore repercussu multiplicare or multiplicato sono reddere.
IMPROPR., Anything is the echo of anything, aliquid alicui rei resonat tamquam imago (e.g., gloria virtuti).
echo v.
resonare: voci resonare: vocem reddere or remittere: voci respondere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for Echo?
- The usual Latin words for “Echo” are ēchō, resonō, repercutiō; also reciprocus, remittō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.