eco-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eco"

English

Etymology

From French éco-, from Latin oeco-, from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house, household”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕkŏ-

• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈiːkəʊ/
  • (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkoʊ/

Prefix

eco-

1. ecology or the environment (in the ecological sense)
2. economy

Usage notes

Primarily used in ecology/environment sense; if used in “economy” sense, usually as part of economy or a derived term.

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with eco-

• ecoporn
• eco-town

(Economics):

• econometrics
• econometry
• economy

Translations

concerning ecology or the environment

• Afrikaans: eko-
• Aragonese: eco-
• Armenian: էկո- (ēko-)
• Breton: eko-
• Bulgarian: еко- (eko-)
• Catalan: eco- (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生 (zh) (sheng)

• Corsican: ecu-
• Czech: eko-
• Danish: øko- (da)
• Dutch: eco- (nl)
• Esperanto: eko-
• Finnish: eko- (fi)
• French: éco- (fr)
• Galician: eco- (gl)
• Georgian: ეკო- (eḳo-)
• German: öko- (de)

  Alemannic German: öko-

• Greek: οικο- (el) (oiko-)
• Hebrew: אקו-
• Hungarian: öko-
• Icelandic: visti-
• Ido: eko-
• Indonesian: eko-
• Interlingua: eco-
• Irish: éici-, éicea-
• Italian: eco- (it)
• Japanese: エコ (eko)
• Korean: 생 (ko) (saeng)
• Latin: oeco-
• Lithuanian: eko-
• Luxembourgish: öko-
• Macedonian: еко- (eko-)
• Malay: eko- (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øko-

  Nynorsk: øko-

• Occitan: eco- (oc)
• Polish: eko-
• Portuguese: eco- (pt)
• Romanian: eco-
• Russian: эко- (eko-)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еко-

  Roman: eko-

• Slovak: eko-
• Slovene: eko-
• Spanish: eco- (es)
• Sundanese: éko-
• Swedish: eko- (sv)
• Tagalog: eko-
• Turkish: eko-
• Ukrainian: еко- (eko-)
• Vietnamese: sinh (vi)
• Welsh: eco- (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} eco-
• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} eco-

Anagrams

• CEO, COE, CoE, Coe, EOC, ceo

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house, household”).

Prefix

eco-

1. eco- (forming words concerning ecology or the environment)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin echō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “echo”).

Prefix

eco-

1. echo- (forming words related to echos or other reflected waves)

Derived terms

Catalan terms prefixed with eco-

Further reading

• “eco-” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “eco-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “eco-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.koː/

• Audio:

  (file)

Prefix

eco-

1. eco-

Dutch terms prefixed with eco-

Italian

Prefix

eco-

1. forms words relating to echos
2. eco- (environmental)

Portuguese

Prefix

eco-

1. eco- (concerning ecology or the environment)

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house, household”).

Prefix

eco-

1. eco-; forms words concerning ecology or the environment

   ‎eco- + ‎sistema (“system”) → ‎ecosistema (“ecosystem”)

Etymology 2

From Latin echō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “echo”).

Prefix

eco-

1. forms words relating to echos or other reflected waves

   ‎eco- + ‎cardiograma (“cardiogram”) → ‎ecocardiograma (“echocardiogram”)

Derived terms

Spanish terms prefixed with eco-

Further reading

• “eco-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28