eco
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Shortening of ecology
[edit] Adjective
eco (comparative more eco, superlative most eco)
- Environmentally friendly or sensitive.
- 2008 December 28, Lucy Siegle, “Why older isn't always wiser”:
- Except that the smart eco (and fiscal) thing to do is to wait until your current appliance has reached its break-even point […]
- 2008 December 28, Lucy Siegle, “Why older isn't always wiser”:
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[edit] Catalan
[edit] Noun
eco m. (plural ecos)
[edit] Esperanto
[edit] Etymology
Back-formation from -eco (“quality”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈetso/
- Hyphenation: e‧co
[edit] Noun
eco (plural ecoj, accusative singular econ, accusative plural ecojn)
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[edit] Italian
[edit] Noun
eco m. (plural echi)
[edit] Noun
eco f. inv.
- (Short form of: ecografia, medicine) ultrasound, ultrasonography
[edit] Portuguese
[edit] Alternative forms
- echo (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhō), from ἠχή (ēkhē, “sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA: /ˈɛ.ko/
[edit] Noun
eco m. (plural ecos)
- echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer)
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[edit] Spanish
[edit] Etymology
From Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ.
[edit] Noun
eco m. (plural ecos)
[edit] Venetian
[edit] Etymology 1
Compare Italian eco
[edit] Noun
eco m. (plural echi)
[edit] Etymology 2
Compare Italian ecco
[edit] Adverb
eco
[edit] Derived terms
Categories:
- English adjectives
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Esperanto back-formations
- Esperanto nouns
- Esperanto words suffixed with -eco
- Italian nouns
- it:Medicine
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese nouns
- pt:Sound
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish nouns
- Venetian nouns
- Venetian adverbs