eco

enPR: ī′kō

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːkəʊ/ (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /ˈikoʊ/ (General American)
• IPA^(key): /ˈiːkoː/ (Indic)

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enPR: ĕ′kō, (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkoʊ/

• Homophone: echo

enPR: ĕk-ōʹ, (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɛˈkoː/ (less commonly as a spelling pronunciation)

• Homophone: echo (without aspiration)

By clipping.

eco (comparative more eco, superlative most eco)

1. Clipping of ecological: environmentally friendly or sensitive.
   • 2008 December 28, Lucy Siegle, “Why older isn't always wiser”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     Except that the smart eco (and fiscal) thing to do is to wait until your current appliance has reached its break-even point […]

   • 2019, Roger Hunt, Marianne Suhr, Old House Eco Handbook, page 156:

     Check the eco credentials of your paint – not all are what they say on the tin.

2. Clipping of economy (“affording economical use, e.g. of an appliance”).

   This vacuum cleaner has an eco setting which preserves battery life.

• eco hotel
• eco round

From ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, who propose to use the currency.

eco (plural ecos)

1. A proposed name for the common currency that the West African Monetary Zone plans to introduce in the framework of the Economic Community of West African States.

• CEO, COE, CoE, Coe, EOC, ceo

eco

1. elephant

“Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[2] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɛ.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɛ.ko]

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eco m (plural ecos)

1. echo

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [ɪd͡ʒó]
• Hyphenation: e‧co

eco

1. deer

• J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 21
• J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 51

Back-formation from -eco (“quality”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈet͡so/

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• Rhymes: -et͡so
• Hyphenation: e‧co

eco (accusative singular econ, plural ecoj, accusative plural ecojn)

1. quality, attribute

• propreco

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦺꦕ (, éca, “delicious”), from Old Javanese ica, icchā (“wish, desire; pleased”), from Sanskrit इच्छा (icchā, “wish, desire, inclination”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.t͡ʃo/, [ˈe.t͡ʃo]
• Hyphenation: é‧co

éco

1. (colloquial, Central Java) delicious (pleasing to taste)

   Synonyms: enak, gurih, lezat, nikmat, raos, sedap

• “eco” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ko/^[1][2]

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• Homophone: Eco
• Rhymes: -ɛko
• Hyphenation: è‧co

eco f or (colloquial or literary) m^[1] (plural echi m or (proscribed^[1]) eco f^[3])

1. echo
2. echoing sound
3. (nautical) sounding (of the depth)

• ecco (archaic)^[1]

eco f (invariable)

1. (medicine) short for ecografia (“ultrasound, ultrasonography”)

• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “eco”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
• eco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

eco

1. (Indonesian) nonstandard spelling of éca, romanization of ꦲꦺꦕ

In Old Latin spelling, C could represent either the voiceless velar plosive /k/ or its voiced counterpart /g/.

eco

1. Old Latin spelling of ego
   • c. 620–600 BC, Tita Vendia vase:

     𐌄𐌂𐌏𐌖𐌓𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌉𐌀𐌔𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌓[𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌]𐌄𐌃𐌖𐌇𐌄[𐌂𐌄𐌃]

     ECOVRNATITAVENDIASMAMAR[COSM]EDVHE[CED]
     ecō vrnā Titā Vendiās Mamar[cos m]ēd vhe[ced]

     I am the urn of Tita Vendia. Mamar[cos made me].

Learned borrowing from Latin echō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-.

• echo (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -ɛku
• Hyphenation: e‧co

eco m (plural ecos)

1. echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer)

   Synonyms: repercussão, ressonância, ressono, ressoo

Clipping of ecografia (“echography”).

• Rhymes: -ɛkɔ
• Hyphenation: e‧co

eco f (plural ecos)

1. clipping of ecografia (“echography”)

Borrowed from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeko/ [ˈe.ko]
• Rhymes: -eko
• Syllabification: e‧co

eco m (plural ecos)

1. echo

• “eco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Compare Italian eco

eco m (plural echi)

1. echo

Compare Italian ecco

eco

1. here

• ècome, ècone, ècote, ècove, ècoło, ècheło, ècoła, ècheła, ècołi, èchełi, ècołe, èchełe (adverbial pronouns)