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Where does “hypoechoic” come from?

Hypoechoic derives from English echoic, from English echo, from French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἠχή meaning sound or noise.

hypoechoic (English): Of low echogenicity

Definitions

  1. Of low echogenicity

Ancestry of “hypoechoic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishechoicOf or pertaining to an echo; Imitative of a...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem—
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-—
11Latinîn—
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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