echo: [14] Echo comes via Old French or Latin from Greek ēkhó, a word related to ēkhé ‘sound’. It may have originated as a personification of the concept ‘sound’, which developed eventually into the mythological mountain nymph Echo, who faded away for love of Narcissus until nothing but her voice was left. (The Greek verb derived from ēkhé, ēkhein, is the ultimate source of English catechism.) => catechism
echo (n.)
mid-14c., "sound repeated by reflection," from Latin echo, from Greek echo, personified in classical mythology as a mountain nymph who pined away for love of Narcissus until nothing was left of her but her voice, from or related to ekhe "sound," ekhein "to resound," from PIE *wagh-io-, extended form of root *(s)wagh- "to resound" (cognates: Sanskrit vagnuh "sound," Latin vagire "to cry," Old English swogan "to resound"). Related: Echoes. Echo chamber attested from 1937.
echo (v.)
1550s (intrans.), c. 1600 (trans.), from echo (n.). Related: Echoed; echoing.
例文
1. Pinks and beiges were chosen to echo the colours of the ceiling.
天井の色に追従するためにピンクとベージュを選択しました。
2.Many phrases in the last two chapters echo earlier passages.
最後の2章の多くは、前の段落への呼応である。
3.The old fable continues to echo down the centuries.
という古い寓話は数世紀にわたって伝えられてきた。
4.Political attacks work only if they find an echo with voters.
政治的な攻撃は有権者の中で共感を呼んでこそ役に立つ。
5.There was an echo on the line and I couldn 't hear clearly.