Etymology

echeme

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Today it means: A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables). Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἤχημα
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  1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἤχημα“a sound”
  2. English todayecheme

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἤχημα (ḗkhēma, “a sound”), from ἠχέω (ēkhéō, “I make sound, I chirp”) + -μᾰ (-mă, forming nouns form verbal stems). Introduced by Broughton (1976).

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