echolalia

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From echo +‎ -lalia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪliə

Noun

echolalia (countable and uncountable; plural echolalias)

1. (clinical psychology) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.
2. An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.

Translations

echoing of words or phrases

• Bulgarian: ехолалия (bg) (exolalija) f 
• Dutch: echolalie (nl) f
• Finnish: kaikupuhe (fi)
• French: écholalie (fr) f
• German: Echolalie (de) f
• Icelandic: bergmálstal (is) n
• Italian: ecolalia (it) f
• Lithuanian: echolalija (lt) f
• Polish: echolalia (pl) f

• Portuguese: ecolalia (pt) f
• Romanian: ecolalie (ro) f
• Russian: эхолалия (ru) (exolalija) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: eholalija (sh) f, ехолалија (sh) f
• Spanish: ecolalia (es) f
• Swedish: ekolali (sv)
• Turkish: ekolali (tr)

References

• “echolalia” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “echolalia” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.